Experiences with the ns-2 network simulator-explicitly setting seeds considered harmful

2007 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Umlauft, Martina ^a   Reichl, Peter ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA FTW   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; NUMBER THEORY; SEED; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

NETWORK SIMULATORS; SIMULATION RESULTS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 51749102434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WTS.2007.4563316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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