Universal College of Engineering, Kaman
Department of Computer Engineering
Subject: Computer Networks
Experiment No: 8
Roll No: 41 Name: Riya Arvind Kini Div: A Batch: A3
AIM: Study and Installation of Network Simulator (NS3).
THEORY:
The ns-3 simulator is a discrete-event network simulator targeted primarily for research and
educational use.
The ns-3 project, started in 2006, is an open-source project developing ns-3.
The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce new ns-3 users to the system in a structured way. It is
sometimes difficult for new users to glean essential information from detailed manuals and to
convert this information into working simulations. In this tutorial, we will build several example
simulations, introducing and explaining key concepts and features as we go.
As the tutorial unfolds, we will introduce the full ns-3 documentation and provide pointers to
source code for those interested in delving deeper into the workings of the system.
A few key points are worth noting at the onset:
● ns-3 is open-source, and the project strives to maintain an open environment for
researchers to contribute and share their software.
● ns-3 is not a backwards-compatible extension of ns-2; it is a new simulator. The two
simulators are both written in C++ but ns-3 is a new simulator that does not support the
ns-2 APIs.
For the installation of NS3, VMware workstation is required to be installed, along with an
Ubuntu system.
1. Download VMWare workstation from the website:
[Link]
ting/vmware_workstation_player/15_0
2. Download Ubuntu 20.04.01 Desktop AMD 64 from the website:
[Link]
3. Install VMWare workstation onto the computer system and open it
4. Set up the VMware workstation: a. Create a new virtual machine by selecting “Create New
Virtual Machine.”
Universal College of Engineering, Kaman
Department of Computer Engineering
Subject: Computer Networks
In the installer wizard, select installer disc image file(iso) and select the downloaded Ubuntu
20.04.01 AMD 64 iso file by browsing through the computer download files.
Universal College of Engineering, Kaman
Department of Computer Engineering
Subject: Computer Networks
Name the machine and set the password.
d. Configure the Hardware:
i. For memory: set the value to 4600 MB or above.
ii. For faster VMware, set processors to 2.
5. Power on the virtual machine and let the machine update.
6. Within the Virtual machine, download NS3 on the VM by opening Mozilla firefox and
downloading from the NS3 website.
7. Install prereq packages on Ubuntu using terminal:
a. Open the terminal by right clicking the desktop and select “open in terminal.”
b. Paste in this code and then press enter: sudo apt-get install g++ python3 python3-dev
pkg-config sqlite3 python3- setuptools git qt5-default mercurial gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0 python-gi
python-gi-cairo
python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-pygraphviz gir1.2- gtk-3.0 ipython3 openmpi-bin openmpi
common openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev autoconf cvs bzr unrar gdb valgrind uncrustify doxygen
graphviz imagemagick texlive texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-extra texlivefont-utils dvipng
latexmk python3-sphinx dia gsl-bin libgsl-dev libgsl23 libgslcblas0 tcpdump sqlite sqlite3
libsqlite3-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev cmake libc6-dev libc6-dev-i386 libclang-6.0-dev
llvm-6.0-dev automake python3-pip libgtk-3-dev synaptic vtun lxc uml-utilities
c. After the packages have finished downloading, paste in this code and press enter: sudo pip3
install cxxfilt
8. After installing the required packages, create a folder named workspace in the home directory
and then put the NS3 tar package into the workspace. See example figure below.
Universal College of Engineering, Kaman
Department of Computer Engineering
Subject: Computer Networks
9. Go to terminal and input these commands consecutively after each command finishes
executing:
cd
cd workspace
tar xjf <Name of Ns3 downloaded file name>
cd <Name of extracted Ns3>
./[Link] --enable-examples --enable-tests
10. Test the NS3 build and installation success by running [Link] in the ns directory using the
following commands: cd ns- ./[Link]
11. If all of the tests were passed, Congratulations! NS3 has now been installed successfully.
CONCLUSION: Thus, we have studied and successfully install NS3.
