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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2010.14.3.754

A Design of a Co-simulator Integrates a System-on-Chip Simulator and Network Simulator for Development Environments of Prototype Network Devices

Lee, He-Eung (한밭대학교 정보통신전문학원 전파공학과)
Park, Soo-Jin (한밭대학교 정보통신전문학원 전파공학과)
Gwak, Dong-Eun (한밭대학교 정보통신전문학원 전파공학과)
Park, Hyun-Ju (한밭대학교 정보통신전문학원 전파공학과)

Publication Information

Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.14, no.3, 2010 , pp. 754-766 More about this Journal

Abstract

In the wireless communication protocols, a network device is responsible for the operation of lower-layers. The network device consists of hardware and software modules, so it can be designed using system-on-chip simulator. The simulator design needs the support of a network simulator as well as system-on-chip simulator, because the network device interact with various higher layer communication protocols. Therefore the co-simulator can become a development environment of the network device through the combining of them. In this paper we propose a co-simulator combining these two simulators. The proposed co-simulator does not degrade performance due to integrations. Also, it is easy to integrate them because the implementation of the kernel is independent.

Keywords

Co-simulator; Network Simulator; SystemC; NS-3; Network Device;

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