Network Simulations with the ns-3 Simulator

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Using Mininet for emulation and prototyping Software-Defined Networks (2014, background): “Nowadays, very few network simulators support the OpenFlow protocol; one is ns-3 [15].”
End-to-End Simulation of 5G mmWave Networks (2017, methodology): “NS –3 The ns–3 discrete-event network simulator [23], [46] is a very powerful tool available to communication and networking researchers for developing new protocols and analyzing complex systems.”
LIPSIN: line speed publish/subscribe inter-networking (2009, methodology): “Another important part of our evaluation studies was to implement our line speed forwarding scheme in ns-3 [18].”
A Survey on Smart Grid Cyber-Physical System Testbeds (2017, background): “NS-3 is an open-source network simulator software that various power system communication protocols can be implemented [109].”
Scalability Analysis of Large-Scale LoRaWAN Networks in ns-3 (2017, background): “ns-3 is an open source discrete-event network simulator, targeted primarily for research and educational use [7].”
A Survey on Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges and Design Requirements (2017, background): “Other simulators that support OpenFlow protocol are NS-3 [152] and Trema [153] which are implemented in C++ and C (and Ruby) respectively [154].”