COLLOQUIUM
Department of Computer Science and Engineering 
University of South Carolina
 
An Introduction to the Network Simulator NS2

Srihari Nelakuditi
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Carolina

Date: November 8, 2002 (Friday)
Time:  3:30-4:30PM
Place: Swearingen 2A31


Abstract

NS2 is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research.
NS2 provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and
multicast protocols over wired and wireless networks. The NS2
simulation description language is an extension of the Tool Command
Language, Tcl.  A simulation is defined by a Tcl program.  Using NS2
commands, a network topology is defined, traffic sources and sinks are
configured, statistics are collected, and the simulation is invoked.
By building upon a general-purpose language, arbitrary actions can be
programmed into the configuration. NS2 is developed and maintained by
the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute
in collaboration with many research laboratories and universities. The
purpose of this talk is to provide a tutorial introduction to NS2.



Srihari Nelakuditi received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from
Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India in 1989, the M.Tech. degree in
Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras in
1991, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of
Minnesota at Minneapolis in December 2001.  Dr. Nelakuditi has been an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of South Carolina since August 2002.
Dr. Nelakuditi was a software design engineer for Texas Instruments in
Bangalore, India, from 1991 to 1994 and an intern at Sandia National
Laboratories during his Ph.D. studies.  Dr. Nelakuditi's research
interests include quality-of-service routing, multimedia
communication, wireless networks, and mobile networks.