Network Emulation in the Vint/NS Simulator

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  • ISCC '99 Proceedings of the The Fourth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
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  • 1999

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Abstract

Employing an emulation capability in network simulation provides the ability for real-world traffic to interact with a simulation. The benefits of emulation include the ability to expose experimental algorithms and protocols to live traffic loads, and to test real-world protocol implementations against repeatable interference generated in simulation. This paper describes the design and implementation of the emulation facility in the NS simulator, a commonly-used publicly available network research simulator.