EMANE

Spec sheet

Purpose

EMANE is an open-source distributed emulation framework for designing, developing, and testing simple and complex network architectures.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Intended users

The guide is for people using EMANE in wireless-communication-systems research and development and assumes familiarity with basic wireless concepts and the Linux command line.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

License

The guide says accompanying source code is released under the BSD 3-clause license; the guide itself is under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 unless otherwise noted.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Headquarters

Bridgewater, New Jersey, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · emane.io

Maker

Adjacent Link describes itself as a privately owned engineering company focused on developing and testing mission-critical mobile wireless systems.Read 3 Oct 2026 · adjacentlink.com

Configuration

The emulator processes XML configuration files for platform, NEM, radio model, boundary, and radio error-rate or packet-completion curves.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Emulation

Its physical-layer model accounts for signal propagation, antenna profile effects, and interference sources.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Help and support

Adjacent Link's GitHub organization provides project Issues and Pull Requests for reporting application-specific bugs or questions.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Linux application

EMANE runs as a Linux user-space application and uses radio-model plugins with a physical-layer model to emulate a waveform's lowest layer.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Network boundaries

The distribution includes Raw Transport and Virtual Transport boundaries, and supports IP and non-IP wireless-system emulation.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Programming

C++, Python, and Google Protocol Buffers experience can help with developing radio models or tools, but the guide says they are not prerequisites for using EMANE.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Radio models

The open-source distribution includes RF Pipe, IEEE 802.11abg, TDMA, and Bent Pipe radio models, plus the Comm Effect utility model.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Scaling guidance

The guide advises using one NEM per emulator instance for performance reasons.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

Scenario events

Its physical layer uses antenna profile, location, pathloss, and fading-selection events, and users can create custom event-generating applications with the Python emane.events module.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

SDR integration

EMANE radio-model plugins can be combined with existing software-defined-radio components for shared-code experimentation.Read 3 Oct 2026 · emane.io

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