NS-3 is a discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems. It was not developed for MolCom simulators. Nevertheless, its flexible structure has allowed to implement some basic elements of MolCom, in particular a simulation tool has been developed in the framework of the IEEE P1906.1 working group. NS-3 is organized in different software libraries that can work together. User programs, written in C++ or Python programming languages, can adapt these libraries or be linked with them. External animators and data analysis and visualization tools are available. Nevertheless, in order to exploit the full potentials of the NS-3 the command line interface is suggested.
The simulator is designed to be executed on a single machine. The minimal requirements to execute basic simulations are a gcc or clang compiler and Python interpreter. The simulation granularity is defined by users. Event design can be adapted to any granularity and are synchronized in the simulator implementation processing loop.
See also:
S. F. Bush et al., "Defining Communication at the Bottom", IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, 1(1), March 2015.
