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Netsimulyzer - a 3D visualizer for Network Simulator 3

Netsimulyzer - 3D visualizer Netsimulyzer is a third-party software that can show the visuals of the ns3 output in a 3D virtual world. we can make the nodes look either like land drones, drones, smartphones, etc. We can construct buildings, towers, antennas, etc within the visualizer and the movement of the nodes can be simulated as well.  Here is the screenshot of a simulation generated using ns3 and shown in the Netsimulyzer.  This post will help you to understand and install Netsimulyzer in Ubuntu 22.04 and add a module to support ns3 in generating the Netsimulyzer JSON file. Netsimulyzer Installing Netsimulyzer in Ubuntu and NS3 Prerequisites Ubuntu 22.04 OS ns-3.38 Netsimulyzer version 1.0.7  There are older versions also available for other distributions of ubuntu., but we will focus on these versions Steps for installation: ns-3.38 along with Netsimulyzer module to be installed. Netsimulyzer software to be installed on Ubuntu 22.04 (the software can be installed ...

Installation of ns3 in Ubuntu 22.04 | NS-3.38

Installation of ns3 in Ubuntu 22.04 In this post, we are going to install ns3.38 in Ubuntu 22.04 OS After the fresh installation of Ubuntu, perform the following command to run the updates  Prerequisites: Download ns-3.38 from the following link ( https://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.38.tar.bz2 ) Fresh installation of Ubuntu 22.04  For complete instructions, follow the video Step 1:  Install the basic requirements Open a terminal and just copy and paste the following two lines into a terminal and install it. It will take some time to complete the full process. $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install g++ python3 cmake ninja-build git gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0 python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-pygraphviz gir1.2-gtk-3.0 ipython3 tcpdump wireshark sqlite sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools openmpi-bin openmpi-common openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev doxygen graphviz imagemagick python3-sphinx dia imagemagick texlive dvipng latexmk texlive-extra...