TY - JOUR T1 - A Comparative Analysis of Modern Day Network Simulators AU - Pal, Debajyoti JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 11 IS - 2 SP - 65 EP - 70 PY - 2012 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2012.65.70 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2012.65.70 KW - Network simulators KW -simulation KW -scalability KW -network-loss KW -topology KW -India AB - It is a very common practice to use network simulators for testing different network performance parameters before the real-life deployment of such a network. Simulation results across different simulators should be in close agreement with each other and must be dependable. Apart from ns-2, few other recent network simulators have come into existence today and are gaining in more popularity. Thus, it is evident that a qualitative comparison should be made about which simulator should be used. In this study, researchers survey some of the widespread network simulators that are in use today and try to evaluate their performance over certain parameters by setting up identical network simulation scenarios. The results that are obtained from the experiments conducted are analyzed in detail. ER -