NetSim Academic
NetSim Academic is an economical option for educational customers intending to use NetSim for lab experimentation and teaching. Looking at doing Network R & D? then NetSim Standard is the product you should explore. The version comparison table shows the features available in the different versions of NetSim.
6 Reasons Why You Need NetSim Academic
If you're a professor looking to set-up / enhance your university's communication-network lab, and unable to manage with legacy software / open source simulators, this is just for you.
| NetSim powered lab | Possible current lab set-up | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Easy to use GUI for network design. Results dashboard with Plots, Tables, Logs, Traces. |
Open source simulators use a command line interface and scripting languages. Very difficult for unskilled users to use and understand |
| 2. | NetSim academic versions supports a Wide Range of Technologies including the latest in 802.11, 802.15.4, LTE, IOT, MANETs, 802.22, Enhanced TCP etc | No experiments in the latest technologies |
| 3. | Painless change as equivalent lab experiments are available in NetSim | Using legacy software like OPNET and unable to get upgrades / support |
| 4. | Well designed and up to date Experiment & User manuals | Unclear documentation i.e written for developers and not students, and lacks screen shots, examples etc |
| 5. | Straightforward install and licensing | Complex installation process prone to errors |
| 6. | Dedicated support - live online support during installation. Helpdesk based support post installation. Training sessions via team viewer. Monthly webinars | Open source support - dependent on an informal network of people to respond to your queries on the forum. |
Technologies Supported
The simulation technologies supported in NetSim Academic version are
- Aloha, Slotted Aloha
- Ethernet, Switching
- Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
- RF propagation - Pathloss, fading and shadowing
- Routing: RIP, OSPF
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP): Old Tahoe, Tahoe, Reno, New Reno, BIC, CUBIC, SACK, Window Scaling
- User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
- VLAN, Firewalls and Access Control Lists, NAT
- MANET with DSR, AODV, ZRP and OLSR
- Software Defined Networks (SDN)
- GSM & CDMA
- Internet of things (IoT) with RPL protocol, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
- LR-WPAN 802.15.4
- Cognitive Radio - 802.22
- Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE Advanced
- Traffic Generator – CBR, Voice, Video, FTP, Database, HTTP, Email, Database
- Virtual Network Stack, Simulation Kernel, Command Line Interface,
- Metrics Engine with Packet Trace, Radio Measurements and Plot Generator, Packet Animator
35+ inbuilt labs, per the curricula of top universities, across a range of technologies
Each of these example labs come with documentation with sections on Motivation, Theory, Network Set-up, Results and Discussion.
Introduction to Networking and Network Simulation
- Introduction to NetSim (PDF, 651 KB)
- Understand the events involved in NetSim DES (Discrete Event Simulation) in the flow of one packet from a Wired node to a Wireless node (PDF, 561 KB)
- Understand the working of basic networking commands: Ping, Route Add/Delete/Print, ACL (PDF, 631 KB)
- Characteristic curve of throughput versus offered load for a Pure and Slotted ALOHA system (PDF, 449 KB)
Network Performance
- Data traffic types and network performance measures (PDF, 794 KB)
- Simulating Link Failure (PDF, 607 KB)
- Throughput and Bottleneck Server Analysis (PDF, 870 KB)
Routing & Switching
- The OSPF weight setting problem and the performance comparison of the OSPF vs. RIP (PDF, 631 KB)
- Understand the working of OSPF (PDF, 733 KB)
- The M/D/1 Queue (PDF, 356 KB)
- Understand working of ARP, and IP forwarding within a LAN and across a router (PDF, 444 KB)
- Simulate and study the spanning tree protocol (PDF, 424 KB)
- Understand VLAN operation in L2 and L3 Switches (PDF, 450 KB)
- Understand Access and Trunk Links in VLANs (PDF, 418 KB)
- Understand Public IP Address & NAT (Network Address Translation) (PDF, 324 KB)
Transmission control protocol (TCP)
- Introduction to TCP connection management (PDF, 287KB)
- Reliable data transfer with TCP (PDF, 406KB)
- Mathematical Modelling of TCP Throughput Performance ( PDF, 625 KB)
- TCP Congestion Control Algorithms (PDF, 437 KB)
- Understand the working of TCP BIC Congestion control algorithm, simulate and plot the TCP congestion window (PDF, 381 KB)
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11
- Wi-Fi: Throughput variation with distance (PDF, 315 KB)
- WiFi: UDP Download Throughput (PDF, 485 KB)
- How many downloads can a Wi-Fi access point simultaneously handle? (PDF, 450 KB)
- Multi-AP Wi-Fi Networks: Channel Allocation (PDF, 503 KB)
- Wi-Fi Multimedia Extension (IEEE 802.11 EDCA) (PDF, 503 KB)
Internet of Things (IOT) and Wireless Sensor Networks
- One Hop IoT Network over IEEE 802.15.4 (PDF, 353 KB)
- IoT – Multi-Hop Sensor-Sink Path (PDF, 530 KB)
- Performance Evaluation of a Star Topology IoT Network (PDF, 318 KB)
- Study the 802.15.4 Superframe Structure and analyze the effect of Superframe order on throughput (PDF, 378 KB)
Radio Propagation
- Pathloss, Shadowing and Fading (PDF)
Mobile Ad hoc Networks
- Connectivity of a randomly deployed 1-D ad hoc network (PDF)
4G LTE
- LTE Handover (PDF)
- Impact of Interference in 4G Networks (PDF)
- Understanding the Impact of MAC Scheduling algorithms on throughput, in a multi- UE scenario (PDF)
5G (Available only with NetSim Standard version)
- 5G MIMO and Beamforming: A start with MISO and SIMO (PDF, 2468 KB)
- Throughput and fairness of 5G scheduling algorithms in a complex network environment (PDF, 869 KB)