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Introduction to Network Simulator NS2 is a primerproviding materials for NS2 beginners, whetherstudents, professors, or researchers forunderstanding the architecture of NetworkSimulator 2 (NS2) and for incorporatingsimulation modules into NS2. The authors discussthe simulation architecture and the keycomponents of NS2 including simulation-relatedobjects, network objects, packet-related objects,and helper objects.

The NS2 modules included within are nodes,links, SimpleLink objects, packets, agents, andapplications. Further, the book covers three helpermodules: timers, random number generators, anderror models. Also included are chapters ondebugging, variable and packet tracing, resultcompilation, and examples for extending NS2.Two appendices provide the details of scriptinglanguage Tcl, OTcl and AWK, as well objectoriented programming used extensively in NS2.Introduction to Network Simulator NS2 can beused by researchers, professionals or graduatestudents studying telecommunication networks.

Issariyakul •Hossain

Teerawat IssariyakulEkram Hossain

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ISBN 978-0-387-71759-3

Teerawat IssariyakulEkram Hossain

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Introductionto NetworkSimulator NS2