I'm using Matlab in my research work to simulate Mac, Routing and Mobility protocols for MANETs. I want to choice a simulator for MANETs that can work under Windows. Any recommendations?
I wouldn't recommend you to use MATLAB for MANETs, since "to the best of my know", MATLAB doesn't have any toolbox for communication networks, yet.
However, there are other alternatives such as ns-2, ns-3 and Omnet++ (All being free & open source simulators). If you are to work with ns-2/ns-3 on Windows, then you could use a a linux emulator by the name of "Cygwin", but frankly i would never recommned anyone to work on Windows while using ns-2/ns-3. It provides very poor resources management which is typical of Windows. Go for Linux and enjoy its power and performance.
Other commercial simulators supporting MANETs include QualNet & Opnet.
Good Luck...
I suggest ns2/ns3 as a simulator for MANET. It works fine in Linux environment.
Greetings to all friends
I want to simulate an ad hoc network
I actually just got 6 or more sensor nodes in a wireless network using RF band switching frequency and the proper working together I'm sure the network.
It would be better if the software GUI programming because it takes time to learn a language that I do not. At least it's free, and you could have a lot of training database
See what software you guys recommend:
and qualnet omnet + + or Matlab?
-Adhoc + Mobility = MANET are supported by NS2
-NS2 still more recommended in the research area,
-more documentation is available compared to NS3.
Good Luck
For MANETs and VANETs I think NS-2 is one of the most powerfull tools nowadays.
You can program your mobility pattern, retransmision, etc.
You can also use SUMO for mobility patterns for vehicles.
With MOVE you can automatize (with some problems) all of this.
Later you can use TraceGraph to have all the information about NS-2 and have graphs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDP-F8rTcH0
I did it in this paper (in Windows).
I hope it works for you.
Regards
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NS2/ NS3 or if possible use QualNet ,it is very user friendly and results are accepted more preferably when generated by Qualnet than NS2.
@Manoj Yadav
I have a similar problem. Please how about using OMNET ++, would it give more result like the QualNet ?
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