NCS-EC: Network Coding Simulator with Error Control

This paper proposes NCS-EC, a new simulation framework entirely written in C. It is dedicated to evaluating the performances of inter-flow network coding based protocols and error correction codes in networks with errors and/or erasures. Our simulator’s architecture is composed of three ordered layers, NC-network, NC-codec and NC-application. In the first one, the topology of network, the link models and the Network Coding procedure are defined. In the second, two network error correcting codes (KK and LRMC) are implemented. The application parameters and statistical analysis are given in the third layer. To do these operations, we developed a new C library (gf_lib) that operates in a finite field \(\mathbb {F}_{q^{m}}\) with \(q\ge 2\).