Simulation of telecommunication flows using fluid dynamic models

A software application, that simulates the information flow in a telecommunication network, is proposed. The simulator is based on a continuous model obtained impos-ing the conservation of the mean number of packets among two consecutive nodes. For dynamics at nodes, we con-sider two “routing algorithms”, RA1 and RA2. The main difference among the two algorithms is the possibility of redirecting packets by the RA2 algorithm. We show the different behavior of the information flow in a simple net-work, using these two different algorithms.