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@article{151779,
        author = {Dr B.Muni Lavanya and Dr.S.J Saritha and K.Chandrasekhar},
        title = {Network simulation tools performance comparison for wireless networks},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {8},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1193-1200},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=151779},
        abstract = {Network simulation is the most useful and common methodology used to evaluate different network to-pologies without real world implementation. Network simulators are widely used by the research community to evaluate new theories and hypotheses. There are a number of network simulators, for instance,  ns-3, GNS3, Putty, Cisco packet Tracer, Secure CRT, Wireshark and SNMP etc. Therefore, the selection of a network simulator for evaluating research work is a crucial task for researchers. The main focus of this paper is to compare the state-of-the-art, open source network simulators based on the following parameters: mean, standard deviation,standard error,skew,mediany by simulating a MANET routing protocol, to identify an optimal network simulator for the research community.},
        keywords = {Simulation, Network simulators, simulators comparison, MANET Routing Protocol},
        month = {},
        }