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If you are looking for information about OpenSimMPLS network simulator, this is the correct place.

What about OpenSimMPLS?

OpenSimMPLS is an MPLS network simulator, multiplatform and mutilanguage written in Java. It is easy-to-use and is intended for teaching activities. It can be used as well to test new protocols, techniques and methods related to MPLS and/or GoS. OpenSimMPLS is a mature project used in universities and companies in more tan 130 different countries to teach, research and design MPLS networks. It was first developed in 2004 as part of a research project at the University of Extremadura. It was hosted since then in SourceForge.net as a CVS project and since 2014 it was updated as a GIT repository and hosted in GitHub forge.

It supports standard MPLS operation as well as GoS/MPLS operation. See «Guarantee of Service (GoS) Support Over MPLS using Active Techniques» proposal (in spanish) to know and understand more precisely GoS aspects of OpenSimmPLS.

Lots of people have downloaded, used and improved it in different ways. OpenSimMPLS is alive!

If you are in a hurry

• Download the simulator (a PDF Quick user guide is available pressing F1 within the simulator. However if it fails for any reason, you can find it in the path /src/main/resources/com/manolodominguez/opensimmpls/resources/guides of the GitHub project repository (Cannot be linked from outside GitHub).
• Download some examples just to start quickly (all them in a ZIP file).
• Run the simulator with: java -jar opensimmpls-{YourVersion}-with-dependencies.jar
  

Additional documentation

Papers

• Guarantee of Service (GoS) support over MPLS using Active Techniques. M. Domínguez-Dorado, F. J. Rodríguez-Pérez, J. L. González-Sánchez. Proceedings of the 4th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications (AIC ’04). pp. 1-8. ISBN 960-8457-06-8. Tenerife (SPAIN), December, 2004.
• Guarantee of Service (GoS) support over MPLS using Active Techniques. M. Domínguez-Dorado, F. J. Rodríguez-Pérez, J. L. González-Sánchez. WSEAS Transactions on Computers (WSEAS International Journal). Issue 6, volume 3. pp. 1959-1964. ISSN 1109-2750. December, 2004.
• An Architecture to provide Guarantee of Service (GoS) to MPLS. M. Domínguez-Dorado, F. J. Rodríguez-Pérez, J. L. González-Sánchez, J. L. Marzo, A. Gazo. Proceedings of the IV Workshop in MPLS/GMPLS networks. pp. 139-149. ISBN 84-934349-0-56. Girona (SPAIN), March, 2005.
• OpenSimMPLS: Herramienta para la Innovación Docente e Investigación en Redes y Comunicaciones. F. J. Rodríguez-Pérez, M. Domínguez-Dorado, J. L. González-Sánchez, J. L. Marzo Lázaro, A. Gazo-Cervero. Libro de actas de las V Jornadas de Ingeniería Telemática (JITEL’05). Págs. 87-94. ISBN 84-8408-346-2. Vigo (ESPAÑA), Septiembre, 2005.
• Multiplatform and Opensource GoS/MPLS Simulator. M. Domínguez-Dorado, F. J. Rodríguez-Pérez, J. L. González-Sánchez, A. Gazo. Proceedings of the II European Modeling and Simulation Symposium (EMSS2006). International Mediterranean Modelling Multiconference (I3M2006). pp. 529-537. ISBN 84-690-0726-2. Barcelona (SPAIN), October, 2006.
• Educational improvements applying an MPLS network simulator: a technical approach. M. Domínguez-Dorado, F. J. Rodríguez-Pérez, J. Carmona-Murillo, J. L. González-Sánchez. IEEE MEEM. Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine. Volume 2, issue 4. pp. 18-25. ISSN: 1558-7908. December, 2007.
• Simulador MPLS para la Innovación Pedagógica en el Área de Ingeniería Telemática. M. Domínguez-Dorado, F. J. Rodríguez-Pérez, J. L. González-Sánchez. IEEE RITA. Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje. Volumen 2, nº 1. Páginas 27-34. ISSN: 1932-8540. Mayo, 2007.
• Garantía de Servicio sobre MPLS: entrega garantizada. Lucas J. González. Linux Magazine nº56. Págs. 67-70. ISSN: 1576-4079. Enero, 2010.

Books

• Manual de usuario de OpenSimMPLS. Un enfoque práctico para la simulación de redes MPLS con Garantía de Servicio. 1st edition. M. Domínguez-Dorado, José-Luis González-Sánchez, Javier Carmona Murillo. Ed. MDD. ISBN 978­84­614­7952­8. February, 2011.

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Don’t you have enough?

If you need, for instance:

• The project source code.
• Information about the license of each OpenSimMPLS version.
• To download older versions.
• Information to contribute.
• A place to send your comments, file a bug.
• Etc.

Do not hesitate to visit the Project repository in GitHub.