Topology

The topology field captures the shape of the network one wants to model or simulate.

Basic Network Building Blocks

Analytical network simulator supports 3 basic network building blocks.

• Ring

• FullyConnected

• Switch

The below image visualizes the shape of basic network building blocks.

Below is an example of 1D Switch topology.

topology: [ Switch ]

Multi-dimensional Network Topology

By stacking up multiple network building blocks, one can also represent multi-dimensional network topologies.

The below image depicts sample 2D and 3D topologies.

The above samples can be captured as below in the .yml input format.

topology: [ Ring, Switch ]  # 2D topology
topology: [ Ring, Ring, Ring ]  # 3D topology