Congestion control of Tcp/Aqm networks: Does the simulation tool change results?

The simulation of congestion control algorithms of TCP networks is discussed in this paper. Simulation is a widespread procedure for testing and understanding how real systems evolve. Internet has a great impact in our society. Everyone wants fast and reliable links, but sometimes congestion happens because the network delay and the number of users fluctuate from one moment to the next. There are different approaches for dealing with congestion: classical (such as drop tail or RED) or process control techniques (PID, predictive control or fuzzy). Future engineers need to learn about this topic. So it seems logical to use simulation, but which tools should we use? This paper presents a comparison using three different simulation programs: Matlab, EcosimPro and ns-2. Results show that, depending on what we want, we should choose different tools.

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