Dummynet: a simple approach to the evaluation of network protocols
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Self-configuring network traffic generation
Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
An integrated experimental environment for distributed systems and networks
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
StarBED and SpringOS: large-scale general purpose network testbed and supporting software
valuetools '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Performance evaluation methodolgies and tools
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Experiments involving evaluation of new network technologies require realistic network environments. Network traffic is one of the important elements in these environments and many products and approaches are available to generate realistic traffic. However, for efficient evaluation, users should be able to configure their traffic to possess the requisite user-defined characteristics. The existing traffic generators often do not allow users to use their application software in conjunction with the generated traffic. Therefore these generators cannot satisfy user's requirements in some cases. We propose XBurner---a platform that can be used to generate mass traffic using a number of actual and native software applications on virtual PCs. The environment in this platform is developed using AnyBed and XENebula and is controlled by SpringOS. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of XBurner.