Introduction to Simulation

•  Performance Evaluation
  • R. Jain, "The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis", John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991.

• Confidence Intervals
  • Confidence Intervals, S. Waner, from Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus (online).

Internet Performance

• V. Paxson and S. Floyd, "Why We Don't Know How to Simulate the Internet", Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, pp. 1037-1044, December 1997.

• K. Fall and S. Floyd, "Simulation-Based Comparisons of Tahoe, Reno and SACK TCP", SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 5–21, July 1996.
  

Network Simulator (NS-2)

• NS-2 Homepage
   
• NS-2 Manual

Getting Started with NS-2

• Slides from Lecture on 10/12

• Getting started on HW#3
  • How to set up your account setup to run ns-2

• The most official tutorial from the ns www site
  • http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/index.html

• NS by example
  • http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/

• The Tcl command language
  • http://dev.scriptics.com/scripting

• OTcl
  • ftp://ftp.tns.lcs.mit.edu/pub/otcl/doc/tutorial.html