Dummynet: a simple approach to the evaluation of network protocols
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems
Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
An integrated experimental environment for distributed systems and networks
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - OSDI '02: Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Xen and the art of virtualization
SOSP '03 Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
PlanetLab: an overlay testbed for broad-coverage services
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Scalability and accuracy in a large-scale network emulator
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Grid'5000: A Large Scale and Highly Reconfigurable Grid Experimental Testbed
GRID '05 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Lightweight emulation to study peer-to-peer systems
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems (HoTP2P2006)
Topology-aware routing in structured peer-to-peer overlay networks
Future directions in distributed computing
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Emulation sits between simulation and experimentation to complete the set of tools available for software designers to evaluate their software and predict behavior under conditions usually unachievable in a laboratory experiment. It consists in running the real application in an emulated environment. Thus, it behaves more realistically than a simulation, but under a controlled and reproducible environment, more suitable for behavior analysis. In this paper, we propose an emulation platform for parallel and distributed systems where both the machines and the network are virtualized at a low level. We demonstrate that the use of virtual machines allows us to test highly accurate failure injection by "destroying" virtual machines. Failure accuracy is a criteria that demonstrates how realistic a fault is. The platform accuracy is evaluated using Pastry, a fault-tolerant distributed hash-table.