SimCon - a simulation and visualization environment for overlay networks and large-scale applications

  • Authors:
  • Markus Esch;Jean Botev;Hermann Schloss;Alexander Höhfeld;Ingo Scholtes;Benjamin Zech

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg;University of Trier, Trier, Germany;University of Trier, Trier, Germany;University of Trier, Trier, Germany;University of Trier, Trier, Germany;University of Trier, Trier, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A substantial number of massive large-scale applications require scalable underlying network topologies. Nowadays structured Peer-to-Peer overlay networks meet these requirements very well. But there is still a need to decide which of these overlay networks is most suitable for providing the best possible performance for a certain application. This paper describes SimCon - a simulation environment for overlay networks and large-scale applications. SimCon allows the comparison of different overlay networks with respect to predefined metrics derived from requirements of the considered application. This approach allows determining which overlay network meets the needs of a given application best, which in turn is a great support for developers of large-scale applications.