CI-ADDO-EN: Frameworks for ns-3

CI-ADDO-EN：ns-3 框架

• 批准号: 0958139
• 负责人: Thomas Henderson
• 金额: $ 59万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0958139&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; ADDO; EN; Frameworks; ns

This project is developing new simulation frameworks for the ns-3 discrete-event network simulator, a free and open-source research tool designed for use by computer communications network researchers. Simulation remains in heavy use for network research and education, because of its ease of use, reproducibility, availability, scalability, and ease of software development. However, the workflow of a typical simulation study requires the user's careful attention to a number of best practices in methodology to ensure that the results are credible and reproducible by third parties and that errors are not introduced. This project is building an automation framework for the ns-3 simulator that provides an environment that is more conducive to the creation of rigorous studies. The automation framework guides the user to produce valid network simulation models by composition and consistency checking, and definition of experimental settings. The framework exercises control over large-scale simulation studies, and applies statistical methods for output data analysis and execution control. The framework also collect details required to reproduce the experiment and report results. The framework also allows users to specify wide ranges of simulation network topologies, application traffic, and other parameters, allowing experiments to be conducted on a wide range of scenarios with minimal effort. Finally, maintaining the ns-3 software, documentation, and dissemination activities continue. The additions to ns-3, disseminated as open source software, are improving the methodology and credibility for future simulation-based network research.

该项目正在为NS-3离散事件网络模拟器开发新的仿真框架，这是一种免费的开源研究工具，旨在由计算机通信网络研究人员使用。由于其易用性，可重复性，可用性，可伸缩性和软件开发的易用性，因此模拟仍在大量使用网络研究和教育中。 但是，典型的仿真研究的工作流程需要用户仔细注意方法中的许多最佳实践，以确保结果可信和重现的第三方可信，并且不会引入错误。 该项目正在为NS-3模拟器建立一个自动化框架，该框架提供了一个更有利于创建严格研究的环境。 自动化框架指导用户通过组成和一致性检查以及实验设置的定义来生成有效的网络仿真模型。该框架对大规模仿真研究进行控制，并应用统计方法进行输出数据分析和执行控制。该框架还收集了重现实验并报告结果所需的详细信息。 该框架还允许用户指定模拟网络拓扑，应用程序流量和其他参数的广泛范围，从而可以在各种场景上进行实验，并以最小的努力进行实验。 最后，维护NS-3软件，文档和传播活动仍在继续。 NS-3的添加（作为开源软件传播）正在改善基于仿真的网络研究的方法和信誉。