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Beyond the Paper Orbit: Why Most LEO Routing Research Fails the Reality Test

In 2026, the success of a satellite constellation depends on how it manages its “logical brain.” While academia and industry often seem to disagree on clustering, the reality is that […]
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Installing the Simulation Execution Manager for ns-3

Traditionally, in earlier days, a batch of ns-2 simulations were run using suitable scripting languages and the trace analysis was also done using scripts written in different scripting languages such […]
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Installing ‘lorawan’ extension module version v0.3.1 under ns-3.42

LoRaWAN The LoRa Alliance first defined the LoRaWAN standard with the objective of creating a medium access scheme and a set of network management policies that leverage the properties of […]
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Installing ns-3.42 and NetAnim Under Debian 11

ns-3.42 was released on May 29, 2024. The main feature addition in ns-3.42 was support for the 3GPP 38.311 Non-Terrestrial Networks channel model, including a new circular aperture antenna model […]
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Procedure for Installing the NetAnim on New Apple Mac M1/M2.

Problem with Qt 5 on Apple Silicon M1/M2. The reason why Qt 5 may not work out of the box on Apple Silicon M1, M2, and M3 is primarily due […]
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Procedure for Installing ns-3 (3.40) on New Apple Mac M1/M2.

Introduction. Always I love to build and run ns-3 simulations only on Intel-based Linux machines for ‘historical reasons’ of Intel’s multi-core performance; particularly in terms of compilation speed. So, most […]
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Bare Minimal TinyCore Linux for installing Latest ns-3-dev.

Introduction. Nowadays, a typical minimal Linux installation with X/GUI , on a hard disk may consume 1.5 GB to 5 GB. In addition to that, if you just try to […]
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Live, Interactive Visualisation of ns-3 Simulation with PyViz

PyViz Unlike the offline animation tool NetAnim, PyViz is a live simulation visualizer for visualizing ns-3 simulation. It was developed by Gustavo Carneiro[3]. It is written in Python and can […]
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Doing Research in Public Safety Communication using psc-ns3.

Public Safety Communications (PSC) in ns-3. The support for public safety communications (PSC) in ns-3 relies on the newer capabilities introduced in 3GPP Release 12 and subsequent releases for 4G […]
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Sending ICMP Traffic From an ns-3-FdNetDevice Node to a Real Host Over a Real Channel

Declaration: This is nothing but a log of my experiments. There may be a correct/standard way of resolving this problem. But, here, I am presenting my own experiment and a […]
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Realistic 3D Visualization of UWSN Scenario with NetSimulyzer

Aqua-Sim Aqua-Sim is an underwater network simulator that supports a vast amount of protocols and features. Originally developed on the basis of NS-2, Aqua-Sim can effectively simulate acoustic signal attenuation […]
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Installing Aquasim-NG in ns-3.38 and Visualizing UWSN in 3D.

Aqua-Sim Aqua-Sim is an underwater network simulator that supports a vast amount of protocols and features. Originally developed on the basis of NS-2, Aqua-Sim can effectively simulate acoustic signal attenuation […]
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Installing NetSimulyzer for Visualising IoD_Sim FANET in 3D.

IoD_Sim IoD_Sim is an open source and system-level simulator for the IoD (Internet of Drones). It is developed on top of the well-known ns-3 (Network Simulator 3), it implements the […]
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Installing Internet of Drones Simulator (IoD_Sim) in Debian

In [1], the authors abstractly explain IoD and their IoD_Sim as follows: “The Internet of Drones (IoD) is a networking architecture that stems from the interplay between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles […]
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Visualizing ns-3 LEO Satellite Network using NetSimulyzer 3D

Introduction to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). A Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network is a type of satellite communication system where satellites are placed in low Earth orbits, typically at […]
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