Declarative Toolkit for Rapid Network Protocol Simulation and Experimentation

The authors propose the demonstration of the RapidNet toolkit for rapid network protocol simulation, implementation and experimentation. RapidNet utilizes declarative networking, a declarative, database-inspired extensible infrastructure that uses query languages to specify behavior. RapidNet integrates a declarative networking engine with the emerging ns-3 network simulator. The proposed demonstration will showcase two recent use cases: declarative Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork (MANET) routing and network composition. RapidNet is a development toolkit that enables rapid simulation, implementation, and experimentation of network protocols. RapidNet integrates a declarative networking engine with the emerging ns-3 network simulator, which is intended as an eventual replacement for the ns-2 simulator.