Ns2Voip++, an enhanced module for VoIP simulations

Abstract

In the last ten years, many circuit-switched networks for voice have been replaced with packet-switched ones. Hence, simulating Voice over IP has become of paramount importance in assessing the performance of a network. However, a sound performance analysis should be carried out in conditions which are as close as possible to a real deployment. In this paper we present enhancements to ns2voip [1], a module for simulating realistic VoIP traffic with the ns2 simulator. In detail, we add new features, i.e. a correlated model for packet generation in a two-way conversation and implementing a set of realistic playout buffers to simulate the behavior of the receiver. Our code is available at http://cng1.iet.unipi.it/wiki/index.php/Ns2voip.