Burbank J., Kasch W., Ward J. An Introduction to Network Modeling and Simulation for the Practicing Engineer

A volume in the IEEE Communications Society series: The ComSoc Guides to Communications Technologies. IEEE Press - John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011, - 217 pages.This book provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art in modeling and simulation (M&S) tools and discusses many of the pitfalls most commonly encountered by network engineers. A bottom-up approach is taken in describing network M&S, following the Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) modified Open System Interconnect (OSI) stack model. While applicable to network M&S in general, there is particular emphasis placed on wireless network M&S. This book first decomposes the wireless network M&S problem into a set of smaller scopes:
1) radio frequency (RF) propagation M&S (Chapter 2 ),
2) physical layer (PHY) M&S (Chapter 3 ),
3) Medium Access Control (MAC) layer (Chapter 4), and
4) higher layer M&S (Chapter 5).
After considering each of these smaller scopes somewhat independently, the book then revisits the overall problem of how to conduct M&S of a wireless networking system in its entirety.