Continuous and Discrete Time Analysis of Network in NS2

Abstract

A Simulator is nothing but a system which can imitate the working of a real world process and a network simulator is also the system or the software which can establish and analyze a network similar to the network of the real world. There are basically two network simulation methods available, event-driven simulation and time-driven simulation. Both these methods have their own benefits like less simulation time, high efficiency, less operational overhead, user-friendly etc. depending on the application. Different methods of network simulation have different effect on the network parameters. This paper analyses the effect on the network parameters by converting the event-driven simulation of NS2 to time-driven simulation in Matlab.