ENDE: An End-to-end Network Delay Emulator Tool for Multimedia Protocol Development

  • Authors:
  • Ikjun Yeom;A.L. Narasimha Reddy

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Next Generation Information Technology, Kyungpook National University, 1370, Sankyuk-Dong, Buk-gu, Daegu, Korea, 702-701;Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843. reddy@ee.tamu.edu

  • Venue:
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Multimedia applications and protocols are constantly being developed to run over the Internet. A new protocol or application after being developed has to be tested on the real Internet or simulated on a testbed for debugging and performance evaluation. In this paper, we present a novel tool, ENDE, that can emulate end-to-end delays between two hosts without requiring access to the second host. The tool enables the user to test new multimedia protocols realistically on a single machine. In a delay-observing mode, ENDE can generate accurate traces of one-way delays between two hosts on the network. In a delay-impacting mode, ENDE can be used to simulate the functioning of a protocol or an application as if it were running on the network. We will show that ENDE allows accurate estimation of one-way transit times and hence can be used even when the forward and reverse paths are asymmetric between the two hosts. Experimental results are also presented to show that ENDE is fairly accurate in the delay-impacting mode.