Network Simulation Experiments Manual, 3/e (Paperback)

Networking technologies and concepts are often difficult to explain, even through careful description and well thought out examples. One method for making this information "stick" is to create an environment where networking professionals and students can visualize how networks work by utilizing a software tool that simulates the functions within a network. The tool provides a virtual environment for an assortment of desirable features such as modeling a network based on specified criteria and predicting its performance.

The Network Simulation Experiments Manual takes this instructional tool a step further and provides detailed experiments on core networking topologies for use in this simulation environment. Various scenarios are presented within each topology: Review questions, suggested readings, a lab report, and exercises accompanying each assignment. The manual also comes with directions for downloading the free and easy-to-install OPNET IT Guru Academic Edition software. This software provides a virtual environment for modeling, analyzing, and predicting the performance of IT infrastructures, including applications, servers, and networking technologies. Prepared by Professor Emad Aboelela of the Taibah University, Saudi Arabia, the experiments in the manual are closely tied to the organization of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, Fifth Edition and, when used together, serve as a complete tool for understanding how and why computer networks function as they do.

*Updated and expanded by an instructor who has used OPNET simulation tools in his classroom for numerous demonstrations and real-world scenarios. 
* Software download based on an award-winning product made by OPNET Technologies, Inc., whose software is used by thousands of commercial and government organizations worldwide, and by over 500 universities.
*Useful experimentation for professionals in the workplace who are interested in learning and demonstrating the capability of evaluating different commercial networking products, i.e., Cisco routers.
*Covers the core networking topologies and includes assignments on Switched LANs, Network Design, CSMA, RIP, TCP, Queuing Disciplines, Web Caching, etc.

網絡技術和概念通常很難通過仔細的描述和深思熟慮的例子來解釋。一種使這些信息“牢記在心”的方法是創建一個環境，讓網絡專業人員和學生可以通過使用模擬網絡功能的軟件工具來可視化網絡的工作方式。該工具提供了一個虛擬環境，具有各種理想的功能，例如根據指定的標準建模網絡並預測其性能。

《網絡模擬實驗手冊》進一步提供了在這個模擬環境中使用的核心網絡拓撲的詳細實驗。每個拓撲中都提供了各種場景：回顧問題、建議閱讀、實驗報告和與每個任務相關的練習。該手冊還附有下載免費且易於安裝的OPNET IT Guru Academic Edition軟件的指南。該軟件提供了一個虛擬環境，用於建模、分析和預測IT基礎設施的性能，包括應用程序、服務器和網絡技術。

這本手冊由沙特阿拉伯塔伊巴大學的Emad Aboelela教授編寫，實驗與《計算機網絡：系統方法，第五版》的組織密切相關，當一起使用時，它們成為理解計算機網絡如何運作的完整工具。

*由一位在課堂上多次演示和實際場景中使用OPNET模擬工具的教師進行更新和擴展。
*軟件下載基於OPNET Technologies, Inc.開發的屢獲殊榮的產品，該軟件被全球數千家商業和政府組織以及500多所大學使用。
*對於職場專業人士來說，這是一個有用的實驗，他們有興趣學習和展示評估不同商業網絡產品（如思科路由器）的能力。
*涵蓋核心網絡拓撲，包括交換式局域網、網絡設計、CSMA、RIP、TCP、排隊紀律、Web緩存等任務。