What are the NS2 components?

NS2 COMPONENTS

• NS2: the simulator itself, now version: ns-2.26 We will work with the part mostly.
 • NAM: Network animator. Visualized trace tool(not really). Nam editor: GUI interface to generate ns scripts Just for presentation now, not useful for research tracing.
 • Pre-processing: Traffic and topology generators
 • Post-processing: Simple trace analysis, often in Awk, Perl(mostly), or Tcl


                                                

• ns, the simulator itself

 • nam, the Network AniMator – for visualizing ns output – GUI for simple ns scenarios

• Pre-processing – traffic and topology generators

• Post-processing – simple trace analysis – using Awk, Perl, or Tcl


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