HaecComm is the simulator initially developed for the Diploma Thesis "Secure and Efficient Communication for Network-on-Chip under the Consideration of Multiple Paths". The thesis was then condensed into a paper called "Lightweight Authenticated Encryption for Network-on-Chip Communications" which was published at GLSVLSI 2019. The simulator is based on the framework OMNeT++ and written in C++.
To run the application, a local installation of OMNeT++ is required. It can be downloaded from their homepage. The simulator was developed and tested with version 5.2.1.
simulations: contains the configuration files (*.ini)src: contains the source files (C++ header and implementation files (*.h, *.cc) and NED files (*.ned))analysis: contains Python scripts (*.py) and Gnuplot scripts (*.gpi) used to analyse the simulation results and produce graphical representationsdoc: reserved for future documentation filestests: contains test cases (unit and module tests)
To run a simulation, open the OMNeT++ IDE that comes with the framework and import the project by moving the directory that this README file resides in to the IDE's workspace. Afterwards, create a run configuration and select the desired configuration from the list of options ("Config name" dropdown menu). The source files will automatically be compiled before the simulation is executed.
In the current configuration, statistics are recorded when running simulations and saved to SQLite databases. They are stored in the
simulations/results directory. The database schematics are documented in the OMNeT++ manual.
A number of test cases resides in the tests/ directory. To run them, the simulator must be compiled as a shared library. This is achieved by editing
the run configuration and selecting "opp_run" as the executable. When running this configuration now, a shared library version of the simulator will
be compiled. Furthermore, it needs to be compiled in debug mode. Afterwards, the tests may be executed by running the ./runtest script located in
the tests/ directory.
The code is published under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 (or any later version). For details, please see the LICENSE.md file.