A Packet Communication Network Synthesis and Analysis System.
K. Sam Shanmugan, Victor S. Frost, Gary J. Minden, E. Komp · 1986
As communication networks become larger and more complicated, analytic modeling becomes increasingly more difficult and simulation plays an important role in performance evaluations. A key challenge is to be able to develop a flexible, computationally efficient and user friendly simulation package that can be used to analyze and design complex military communication networks that often operate in highly stressed environments. Under a PHASE-I SBIR contract, ST*AR Corporation has defined the requirements for a state-of-the-art network simulator, developed a prototype network simulator, demonstrated the feasibility of using the simulator for studying routing algorithms in a packet switched network, investigated computationally efficient techniques for network simulation, and identified several research issues that need to be addressed in the Phase II effort. Results of the Phase I efforts are described in this report.