Introduction

Before oversim, there have been quite number of network simulators such as P2PSim, OverlayWeaver and PlanetSim. However, none of those become standard emulators / simulators for network researching community due to shortage of vital features:

P2PSim: no real-world interoperability, no visualization OverlayWeaver: no real-world interconnection, unscalable PlanetSim: too simplistic underlay network

Therefore, the researching community needs another tool to simulate their ideas: OverSim.

Details

Modular Architectures

Separated modules can be developed by OMNeT++

Layer Architectures

Underlying network Overlay network Application layer

Consistent interfaces between layers

Between layers, there are common APIs; therefore, changes in one interfaces do not interfere with other interfaces operation.

Other features and characteristics ( Continue Updating )

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