[ns] effects of scaling down links and traffic

[Onno Kievit <okievit@lucent.com>]

Hi,

I was wondering what the effects are if I scale down the
entire simulation scenario to 10 % of it's original size. So
for example:

10 links of 10 Mb -> 10 links of 1 Mb
5 sources generating 1 Mb -> 5 sources generating 100 kb

I intend to have the UDP and TCP packet size remain the same.
So I think this would result in 10 times fewer packets
travelling through the network, so simulation time is
decreased approximately 10 times. But does this have also
other effects, like a change in the delay or the number of
packet drops?

Does anyone have an opinion about this?

Kind regards,

Onno Kievit