NetSim Academic
NetSim Academic is an economical option for educational customers intending to use NetSim for lab experimentation and teaching. Looking at doing Network R & D? then NetSim Standard is the product you should explore. The version comparison table shows the features available in the different versions of NetSim.
6 Reasons Why You Need NetSim Academic
If you’re a professor looking to set-up / enhance your university’s communication-network lab, and unable to manage with legacy software / open source simulators, this is just for you.
| NetSim powered lab | Possible current lab set-up | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Easy to use GUI for network design. Results dashboard with graphs and tables Packet animation to visually understand protocol working. | Open source simulators use a command line interface and scripting languages. Very difficult for unskilled users to use and understand |
| 2. | NetSim academic versions supports a Wide Range of Technologies including the latest in 802.11, 802.15.4, LTE, IOT, MANETs, 802.22, Enhanced TCP etc | No experiments in the latest technologies |
| 3. | Painless change as equivalent lab experiments are available in NetSim | Using legacy software like OPNET and unable to get upgrades / support |
| 4. | Well designed and up to date Experiment & User manuals | Unclear documentation i.e written for developers and not students, and lacks screen shots, examples etc |
| 5. | Straightforward install and licensing | Complex installation process prone to errors |
| 6. | Dedicated support – live online support during installation. Helpdesk based support post installation. Training sessions via team viewer. Monthly webinars | Open source support – dependent on an informal network of people to respond to your queries on the forum. |
Technologies Supported
The simulation technologies supported in NetSim Academic version are
- Aloha, Slotted Aloha
- Ethernet, Switching
- Wireless – 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac
- RF propagation – Pathloss, fading and shadowing
- Routing – RIP, OSPF
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) – Old Tahoe, Tahoe, Reno, New Reno, BIC, CUBIC, SACK, Window Scaling
- User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
- VLAN, Multicast Routing – IGMP, PIM, Firewalls and Access Control Lists, NAT
- MANET with DSR, AODV, ZRP and OLSR
- Software Defined Networks (SDN)
- GSM & CDMA
- Internet of things (IoT) with RPL protocol, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
- LR-WPAN 802.15.4
- Cognitive Radio – 802.22
- Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE Advanced
- Traffic Generator – Voice, Video, FTP, Database, HTTP, Email, P2P, Custom, COAP
- Virtual Network Stack, Simulation Kernel, Command Line Interface,
- Metrics Engine with packet trace, Plot Generator, Packet Animator
30+ inbuilt labs, per the curricula of top universities, across a range of technologies
Each of these example labs come with documentation with sections on Motivation, Theory, Network Set-up, Results and Discussion.
Introduction to Networking and Network Simulation
- Introduction to NetSim
- Understand the events involved in NetSim DES (Discrete Event Simulation) in the flow of one packet from a Wired node to a Wireless node
- Understand the working of basic networking commands: Ping, Route Add/Delete/Print, ACL
- Characteristic curve of throughput versus offered load for a Pure and Slotted ALOHA system
Routing & Switching
- Working and routing table formation of RIP and OSPF
- Performance of FIFO, Priority and WFQ Queuing Disciplines in Routers
- The M/D/1 Queue
- Understand working of ARP, and IP forwarding within a LAN and across a router
- Simulate and study the spanning tree protocol
- Understand VLAN operation in L2 and L3 Switches
- Understand Access and Trunk Links in VLANs
- Understand Public IP Address & NAT (Network Address Translation)
Transmission control protocol (TCP)
- Introduction to TCP connection management
- Reliable data transfer with TCP
- Mathematical Modelling of TCP Throughput Performance
- TCP Congestion Control Algorithms
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11
- Performance of WiFi as distance between the AP and STA is increased
- WiFi: UDP Download Throughput
- How many downloads can a Wi-Fi access point simultaneously handle?
- Quality of Service (QoS) in 802.11e based WLANs
- Multi-AP Wi-Fi Networks: Channel Allocation
Internet of Things (IOT) and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Cyber physical systems (CPS) and IoT – An Introduction
- One Hop IoT Network over IEEE 802.15.4
- IoT – Multi-Hop Sensor-Sink Path
- Performance Evaluation of a Star Topology IoT Network
LTE and Mobile Communication
- Study how the throughput of LTE network varies as the distance between the eNB and UE is increased
- Study how the throughput of LTE network varies as the Channel bandwidth changes in the eNB
- Simulate and study LTE Handover procedure
- Understand the working of LTE Device to Device Communication
- Study how call blocking probability varies as the load on a GSM network is continuously increased
Cognitive Radio
- To analyze how the allocation of frequency spectrum to the Incumbent (Primary) and CR CPE (Secondary User) affects throughput
Q. Can our university students work on NetSim from home?
Ans:
- Yes. Students can access NetSim their homes via our cloud servers.
- NetSim cloud is a hosted managed license server provided by us to our customers. There is no need for customers to any longer manage Dongles, MAC IDs, and other issues related to license servers.
- In NetSim cloud, Tetcos’ manages the set of license server hosts which run the license server processes for our customers. It is a pure license-as-a-service offering, and there is no license server for customers to install.
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