To-do for research this week

• Understand the basic operation of network device drivers and routing/bridging processes in order to implement network simulation models that are more independent of simulators. Specifically, the following will be investigated:
• How IRQs and their handlers are related with event handlers in discrete-event-driven simulators;
• How timers can be implemented in simulators such a way that details specific to simulators are hidden from the models.
• Start working on building new simulation models for hybrid TDM/WDM-PONs based on existing SUCCESS models and OMNeT++ 4.x release.
• Study the concurrent programming and languages better supporting this framework including Erlang, scalar, and clojure.

OMNeT++: The Best Open Source Network Simulator!

I have been using it for various kinds of optical networking simulations since 2001; in my humble opinion, this is simply the best open source networking simulator available now in terms of speed, flexibility and extensibility. The only other simulator that comes close to it is OPNET, which is, however, a commercial one and very expensive.

For more information, please visit its home page, where you could find all the relevant projects and publications.