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How to Use Docker and NS-3 to Create Realistic Network Simulations

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posted on 2023-03-28, 14:53 authored by Alejandro GomezAlejandro Gomez

Sometimes, researchers and developers need to simulate various types of networks with software that would otherwise be  hard to do with real devices. For example, some hardware can be hard to get, expensive to set up, or beyond the skills of the team to implement. When the underlying hardware is not a concern but the essential functions that it does is, software can be a viable alternative. NS-3 is a mature, open-source networking simulation library with contributions from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Google Summer of Code, and others. It has a high degree of capability to simulate various kinds of networks and user-end devices, and its Python-to-C++ bindings make it accessible for many developers. 

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