Sinalgo 0.75.2

Sinalgo is a simulation framework for testing and validating network algorithms. Unlike most other network simulators, which spend most time simulating the different layers of the network stack, Sinalgo focuses on the verification of network algorithms, and abstracts from the underlying layers: It offers a message passing view of the network, which captures well the view of actual network devices. Sinalgo was designed, but is not limited to simulate wireless networks.

The key to successful development of network algorithms is a comprehensive test suite. Thanks to the fast algorithm prototyping in JAVA, Sinalgo offers itself as a first test environment, prior to deploy the algorithm to the hardware. Prototyping in JAVA instead of the hardware specific language is not only much faster and easier, but also simplifies debugging. Sinalgo offers a broad set of network conditions, under which you may test your algorithms. In addition, Sinalgo may be used as a stand-alone application to obtain simulation results in network algorithms research.

Sinalgos view of network devices is close to the view of real hardware devices (e.g. in TinyOS): A node may send a message to a specific neighbor or all its neighbors, react to received messages, set timers to schedule actions in the future, and much more.

Some of the key features of Sinalgo:

Quick prototyping of your network algorithms in JAVA
Straight forward extensibility to cover nearly any simulation scenario
Many built-in, but still adjustable plug-ins
High performance - run simulations with 100000s of nodes in acceptable time
Support for 2D and 3D
Asynchronous and synchronous simulation
Customizable visualization of the network graph
Platform independent - the project is written in Java
Sinalgo is for free, published under a BSD license