Modeling and Simulation of a University LAN in OPNET Modeller Environment
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Academia has peculiar networking needs that
must be satisfied for effective dissemination of knowledge.
The main purpose of a campus network is efficient resource
sharing and access to information among its users. A key
issue with designing and implementing such Local Area
Networks (LAN) is its performance under ever increasing
network traffic, and how this is affected by various network
metrics such as latency and end-to-end delay.
Implementation of network systems is a complex and
expensive task; hence network simulation has become
essential and has proven to be cost effective and highly
useful for modeling the desired characteristics and analyzing
performance under different scenarios. As well as providing
useful prognosis of future network performance based on
current expansion dynamics. We present in this paper the
simulation and analysis of the Covenant University campus
LAN in the OPNET Modeler environment.
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