Authors:
Christos Bouras
1
;
Savvas Charalambides
1
;
Michalis Drakoulelis
1
;
Georgios Kioumourtzis
2
and
Kostas Stamos
1
Affiliations:
1
University of Patras, Greece
;
2
Center for Security Studies KEMEA, Greece
Keyword(s):
Simulation Design, Analysis, Execution, Trace File, Ns-2, TRAFIL.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Application Domains
;
Computer Simulation Techniques
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Telecommunication Systems and Networks
Abstract:
This paper presents the enhancements that we have done on the TRAFIL (TRAce FILe) framework, which significantly extend its capabilities in the areas of simulation design and execution. In particular, TRAFIL now offers the possibility to design, create, execute and review NS-2 simulation scenarios, on top of its existing post-simulation trace analysis functionalities. The enhancements make TRAFIL a complete wrapper around the NS-2 simulator, allowing the user to perform all steps from pre-simulation design to actual simulation execution in an automated way and fast and convenient post-simulation analysis of potentially large amount of data. The paper describes the new TRAFIL architecture and how these enhancements were implemented with the goal of relieving NS-2 users from the often cumbersome tasks of script writing and validating, while also enabling them at to go behind the TRAFIL environment and into the simulator internals at any time. The paper presents the new GUI functionalit
ies developed for that purpose, the approach that we took for their design and how these fit in the overall TRAFIL architecture.
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