Simulation Design and Execution - The Case of TRAFIL

Christos Bouras, Savvas Charalambides, Michalis Drakoulelis, Georgios Kioumourtzis, Kostas Stamos

2013

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 functionalities 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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Bouras C., Charalambides S., Drakoulelis M., Kioumourtzis G. and Stamos K. (2013). Simulation Design and Execution - The Case of TRAFIL . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-8565-69-3, pages 27-34. DOI: 10.5220/0004396800270034


in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech13,
author={Christos Bouras and Savvas Charalambides and Michalis Drakoulelis and Georgios Kioumourtzis and Kostas Stamos},
title={Simulation Design and Execution - The Case of TRAFIL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2013},
pages={27-34},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004396800270034},
isbn={978-989-8565-69-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Simulation Design and Execution - The Case of TRAFIL
SN - 978-989-8565-69-3
AU - Bouras C.
AU - Charalambides S.
AU - Drakoulelis M.
AU - Kioumourtzis G.
AU - Stamos K.
PY - 2013
SP - 27
EP - 34
DO - 10.5220/0004396800270034