Real-time network simulation support for scalable routing experiments Article

Li, Y, Liu, J, Rangaswami, R. (2009). Real-time network simulation support for scalable routing experiments . 5(2), 146-156. 10.1504/IJSPM.2009.028627

cited authors

  • Li, Y; Liu, J; Rangaswami, R

authors

abstract

  • This paper describes a new software infrastructure that combines the scalability and flexibility benefits of real-time network simulation with the realism of open-source routing protocol implementations. The infrastructure seamlessly integrates the open-source XORP router implementation with a real-time large-scale network simulation engine. The design uses a novel forwarding plane offloading approach that decouples routing from forwarding and confines the more resource consuming forwarding operations inside the simulation engine to reduce I/ O overhead. Experiments demonstrate superior performance of the software routing infrastructure without impairing accuracy. The infrastructure is shown to be able to support large-scale routing experiments on light-weight virtual machines. Copyright © 2009, Inderscience Publishers.

publication date

  • January 1, 2009

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 146

end page

  • 156

volume

  • 5

issue

  • 2