Internetworks Experiments in NetSim

Apart from examples, in-built experiments are also available in NetSim. Examples help the user understand the working of features in NetSim. Experiments are designed to help the user (usually students) learn networking concepts through simulation. The experiments contain objective, theory, set-up, results, and inference. The following experiments are available in the Experiments manual (pdf file):

  1. Data traffic types and network performance measures

  2. Throughput and Bottleneck Server Analysis

  3. Delay and Little’s Law

  4. Understand working of ARP, and IP Forwarding within a LAN and across a router

  5. Simulate and study the spanning tree protocol

  6. Introduction to TCP connection management

  7. Reliable data transfer with TCP

  8. Mathematical Modelling of TCP Throughput Performance

  9. Study how throughput and error of a Wireless LAN network changes as the distance between the Access Point and the wireless nodes is varied

  10. Wi-Fi: UDP Download Throughput

  11. How many downloads can a Wi-Fi access point simultaneously handle

  12. TCP Congestion Control Algorithms

  13. Multi-AP Wi-Fi Networks: Channel Allocation

  14. Study the working and routing table formation of Interior routing protocols, i.e. Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

  15. M/D/1 and M/G/1 Queues

  16. Wi-Fi Multimedia Extension (IEEE 802.11 EDCA)

  17. Understand the working of OSPF

  18. Understand the events involved in NetSim DES (Discrete Event Simulator) in simulating the flow of one packet from a Wired node to a Wireless node

  19. Understand the working of TCP BIC Congestion control algorithm, simulate and plot the TCP congestion window

  20. Simulating Link Failure