NetSim Academic

NetSim Academic is an economical option for educational customers intending to use NetSim for lab experimentation and teaching. Looking at doing Network R & D? then NetSim Standard is the product you should explore. The version comparison table shows the features available in the different versions of NetSim.

6 Reasons Why You Need NetSim Academic

If you're a professor looking to set-up / enhance your university's communication-network lab, and unable to manage with legacy software / open source simulators, this is just for you.

	NetSim powered lab	Possible current lab set-up
1.	Easy to use GUI for network design. Results dashboard with graphs and tables Packet animation to visually understand protocol working.	Open source simulators use a command line interface and scripting languages. Very difficult for unskilled users to use and understand
2.	NetSim academic versions supports a Wide Range of Technologies including the latest in 802.11, 802.15.4, LTE, IOT, MANETs, 802.22, Enhanced TCP etc	No experiments in the latest technologies
3.	Painless change as equivalent lab experiments are available in NetSim	Using legacy software like OPNET and unable to get upgrades / support
4.	Well designed and up to date Experiment & User manuals	Unclear documentation i.e written for developers and not students, and lacks screen shots, examples etc
5.	Straightforward install and licensing	Complex installation process prone to errors
6.	Dedicated support - live online support during installation. Helpdesk based support post installation. Training sessions via team viewer. Monthly webinars	Open source support - dependent on an informal network of people to respond to your queries on the forum.

Technologies Supported

The simulation technologies supported in NetSim Academic version are

• Aloha, Slotted Aloha
• Ethernet, Switching
• Wireless – 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac
• RF propagation - Pathloss, fading and shadowing
• Routing – RIP, OSPF
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) – Old Tahoe, Tahoe, Reno, New Reno, BIC, CUBIC, SACK, Window Scaling
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• VLAN, Multicast Routing - IGMP, PIM, Firewalls and Access Control Lists, NAT
• MANET with DSR, AODV, ZRP and OLSR
• Software Defined Networks (SDN)
• GSM & CDMA
• Internet of things (IoT) with RPL protocol, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
• LR-WPAN 802.15.4
• Cognitive Radio - 802.22
• Long Term Evolution (LTE), LTE Advanced
• Traffic Generator - Voice, Video, FTP, Database, HTTP, Email, P2P, Custom, COAP
• Virtual Network Stack, Simulation Kernel, Command Line Interface,
• Metrics Engine with packet trace, Plot Generator, Packet Animator

30+ inbuilt labs, per the curricula of top universities, across a range of technologies

Each of these example labs come with documentation with sections on Motivation, Theory, Network Set-up, Results and Discussion.

Introduction to Networking and Network Simulation

• Introduction to NetSim (PDF, 651 KB)
• Understand the events involved in NetSim DES (Discrete Event Simulation) in the flow of one packet from a Wired node to a Wireless node (PDF, 561 KB)
• Understand the working of basic networking commands: Ping, Route Add/Delete/Print, ACL (PDF, 631 KB)
• Characteristic curve of throughput versus offered load for a Pure and Slotted ALOHA system (PDF, 449 KB)

Network Performance

• Delay and Little’s Law (PDF, 794 KB)
• Simulating Link Failure (PDF, 607 KB)
• Throughput and Bottleneck Server Analysis (PDF, 870 KB)
• Understand Measures of Network Performance: Throughput and Delay (PDF, 391 KB)

Routing & Switching

• Working and routing table formation of RIP and OSPF (PDF, 631 KB)
• Understand the working of OSPF (PDF, 733 KB)
• Understand working of ARP, and IP forwarding within a LAN and across a router (PDF, 733 KB)
• Performance of FIFO, Priority and WFQ Queuing Disciplines in Routers
• The M/D/1 Queue (PDF, 356 KB)
• Understand working of ARP, and IP forwarding within a LAN and across a router (PDF, 444 KB)
• Simulate and study the spanning tree protocol (PDF, 424 KB)
• Understand VLAN operation in L2 and L3 Switches (PDF, 450 KB)
• Understand Access and Trunk Links in VLANs (PDF, 418 KB)
• Understand Public IP Address & NAT (Network Address Translation) (PDF, 324 KB)

Transmission control protocol (TCP)

• Introduction to TCP connection management (PDF, 287KB)
• Reliable data transfer with TCP (PDF, 406KB)
• Mathematical Modelling of TCP Throughput Performance ( PDF, 625 KB)
• TCP Congestion Control Algorithms (PDF, 437 KB)
• Understand the working of TCP BIC Congestion control algorithm, simulate and plot the TCP congestion window (PDF, 381 KB)

Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11

• Performance of WiFi as distance between the AP and STA is increased (PDF, 315 KB)
• WiFi: UDP Download Throughput (PDF, 485 KB)
• How many downloads can a Wi-Fi access point simultaneously handle? (PDF, 450 KB)
• Quality of Service (QoS) in 802.11e based WLANs (PDF, 552 KB)
• Multi-AP Wi-Fi Networks: Channel Allocation (PDF, 503 KB)

Internet of Things (IOT) and Wireless Sensor Networks

• Cyber physical systems (CPS) and IoT – An Introduction (PDF, 491 KB)
• One Hop IoT Network over IEEE 802.15.4 (PDF, 353 KB)
• IoT – Multi-Hop Sensor-Sink Path (PDF, 530 KB)
• Performance Evaluation of a Star Topology IoT Network (PDF, 318 KB)
• Study the 802.15.4 Superframe Structure and analyze the effect of Superframe order on throughput (PDF, 378 KB)

5G (Available only with NetSim Standard version)

• Understand the 5G NR PHY layer (PDF, 521 KB)
• 5G MIMO and Beamforming: A start with MISO and SIMO (PDF, 2468 KB)
• 5G NR (3GPP) Pathloss Models (PDF, 869 KB)
• Simulate and study 5GNR Handover procedure (PDF, 1336 KB)

Cognitive Radio

• To analyze how the allocation of frequency spectrum to the Incumbent (Primary) and CR CPE (Secondary User) affects throughput (PDF, 336 KB))

Q. Can our university students work on NetSim from home?

Ans:

• Yes. Students can access NetSim their homes via our cloud servers.
• NetSim cloud is a hosted managed license server provided by us to our customers. There is no need for customers to any longer manage Dongles, MAC IDs, and other issues related to license servers.
• In NetSim cloud, Tetcos’ manages the set of license server hosts which run the license server processes for our customers. It is a pure license-as-a-service offering, and there is no license server for customers to install.