Dynamic Communication Network Simulator (NETSIM)

Abstract

Advances in communication hardware have made possible the implementation of adaptive distributed networks of time variant topology. Static network simulation models have been incapable of predicting the dynamic effects on overall network performance of changes in linking, routing, and message processing algorithms. A dynamic model is described which will simulate performance of distributed heuristic networks to microsecond accuracy. It will accept as parameters user defined subroutines for message routing, geographic nodal movement, heuristic linking, message processing and noise generation. Written in Extended ALGOL the model makes use of independent task processing capabilities of the Burroughs B6700 computer.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1975
Accession Number
AD1059284

Entities

People

  • Donald E. Willis

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Communication Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Links
  • Line Of Sight
  • Message Processing
  • Network Simulation
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Topology
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Computer Networking
  • Computer Science.