GTNA 2.0 - a framework for rapid prototyping and evaluation of routing algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Benjamin Schiller;Thorsten Strufe

  • Affiliations:
  • P2P Networks - TU Darmstadt;P2P Networks - TU Darmstadt

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Routing in complex networks is increasingly optimized towards situation and properties of the underlying network. Quick hypothesis testing with respect to the performance of different strategies, however, is posing to be an unnecessarily complicated task. To this end we propose GTNA-2, the enhanced second version of Graph-Theoretic Network Analyzer. Based on the broadly used GTNA, it allows both for the efficient and simple analysis of a large set of graph metrics, but additionally has been extended with support for rapid prototyping and quick evaluation of arbitrary routing algorithms. In this paper, we discuss the implementation and evaluation of routing algorithms in GTNA-2. As a proof of concept, we demonstrate the framework's ease of use by comparing the routing performance of Named data Networking with basic IP-based routing.