Simulators for Wireless Networks

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Simulators for Wireless Networks

• Nelson Fonseca

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Physical Layer and Air Interface

• Graphic interface block-diagram form
• Raw data bit generator, FEC, modulators, channel
  impairment
• BER, PER
• RF Engineering support

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Physical Layer and Air Interface
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Physical Layer and Air Interface
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Network Layer

• GloMoSim (UCLA) for large networks
• QualNet comercial version of GloMoSim, models for
  802.11, 802.16, GSM, RF
• NS-2 great support TCP/IP stack, not so many
  channel models, most popular in the Academia
• Opnet commercial leader, customizable code,
  large library of code and documentation

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Network Layer