Automated management of network experiments and user behaviour emulation on large scale testbed facilities

A large number of intelligent components for managing the Future Internet have been proposed recently or are currently being investigated. However, before these network components can be deployed in real-life networks, they need to be thoroughly validated through realistic and large scale experiment...

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Published in2010 International Conference on Network and Service Management pp. 254 - 257
Main Authors Latre, S, Van de Meerssche, W, Melis, S, Papadimitriou, D, De Turck, F, Demeester, P
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2010
Subjects
Accuracy
Complexity theory
Emulation
Internet
Monitoring
Network topology
Software
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Summary:A large number of intelligent components for managing the Future Internet have been proposed recently or are currently being investigated. However, before these network components can be deployed in real-life networks, they need to be thoroughly validated through realistic and large scale experiments. Testbed facilities provide a means to set up large scale network topologies but offer only a limited functionality in managing the deployment of the experiment itself. In this paper, we propose a management framework which automates the configuration and management of network experiments. The framework focuses on the emulation of user behaviour, to obtain realistic network conditions, and features several mechanisms that allow to reduce the experiments' size both temporally (in shorter simulation time) as spatially (with fewer physical nodes).
ISBN:1424489105
9781424489107
ISSN:2165-9605
DOI:10.1109/CNSM.2010.5691288