Telecommunication network analysis with COMNET II.5
Robb Mills · 2005
COMNET II.5 is a general SIMSCRIPT II.5-based model for the performance analysis of circuit-switched, message-switched, or packet-switched networks. A variety of altemate-routing and adaptive shortest-path routing algorithms are built-in. After creating a network description with a convenient menu-driven editor, simulation follows immediately. There are no programming delays. Network operation is animated during the simulation. Reports show blocking probabilities, call queueing and packet delays, network throughput, link group utilization, and link group queue statistics. This paper highlights some of COMNET II.5's latest features, which include capabilities for modeling call preemption, call retries, dynamic bandwidth allocation, link failures, and source-node routing.