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In computer network research, network simulation is a technique whereby a software program replicates the behavior of a real network. This is achieved by calculating the interactions between the different network entities such as routers, switches, nodes, access points, links, etc. [1] Most simulators use discrete event simulation in which the modeling of systems in which state variables ...
Graphical Network Simulator-3 (shortened to GNS3) is a network software emulator first released in 2008. [2] [3] [4] It allows the combination of virtual and real devices, used to simulate complex networks.
Network topology is the arrangement of the elements (links, nodes, etc.) of a communication network. [1] [2] Network topology can be used to define or describe the arrangement of various types of telecommunication networks, including command and control radio networks, [3] industrial fieldbusses and computer networks.
The Hierarchical internetworking model is a three-layer model for network design first proposed by Cisco in 1998. [1] The hierarchical design model divides enterprise networks into three layers: core, distribution, and access.
Cisco Systems introduced a related proposal, not restricted to ATM transmission, called Tag Switching [7] with its Tag Distribution Protocol (TDP). [8] It was a Cisco proprietary proposal, and was renamed Label Switching. It was handed over to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for open standardization. The IETF formed the MPLS Working ...
A gateway is a piece of networking hardware or software used in telecommunications networks that allows data to flow from one discrete network to another. Gateways are distinct from routers or switches in that they communicate using more than one protocol to connect multiple networks [1] [2] and can operate at any of the seven layers of the OSI model.
Convergence is the state of a set of routers that have the same topological information about the internetwork in which they operate. For a set of routers to have converged, they must have collected all available topology information from each other via the implemented routing protocol, the information they gathered must not contradict any other router's topology information in the set, and it ...
Relationship of network components in a media gateway control protocol architecture. The media gateway control protocol architecture is a methodology of providing telecommunication services using decomposed multimedia gateways for transmitting telephone calls between an Internet Protocol network and traditional analog facilities of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). [1]