Opportunistic Networking Protocol Simulator for OMNeT++

TL;DR

This paper introduces OPS, a modular OMNeT++ simulator designed to evaluate Opportunistic Networking protocols in IoT environments, supporting layered protocol modeling.

Contribution

The paper presents the design and implementation of a comprehensive, modular simulator for Opportunistic Networking protocols within OMNeT++, tailored for IoT scenarios.

Findings

Provides a detailed, modular simulation framework for OppNets

Enables performance evaluation of OppNets protocols in IoT

Supports layered protocol modeling for flexible testing

Abstract

The number of computing devices of the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to grow by billions. New networking architectures are being considered to handle communications in the IoT. One of these architectures is Opportunistic Networking (OppNets). To evaluate the performance of OppNets, an OMNeT++ based modular simulator is built with models that handle the operations of the different protocol layers of an OppNets based node. The work presented here provides the details of this simulator, called the Opportunistic Protocol Simulator (OPS).