Title
Qualitative comparison of link shaping techniques
Abstract
Over the last several years there has been an ever increasing trend in using emulated testbeds for network experimentation. Emulated testbeds offer a reproducible and highly controlled experimental environment; however, due to the physical proximity of the nodes to each other in the data centre, the available links have very low propagation delays and unrealistic bandwidth. In this work, we conduct a qualitative comparison of three link shaping approaches. We focus on evaluating approaches as opposed to individual link shaping tools. Our goal in this work is to ascertain which approach yields the fewest emulation artefacts. Our results indicate that a transparent link shaping node significantly outperforms the other two methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1504/IJCNDS.2010.033970
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
emulated testbed,qualitative comparison,data centre,available link,network experimentation,transparent link,fewest emulation artefact,low propagation delay,individual link,physical proximity,experimental environment,emulation,networks
Test bench,Computer science,Bandwidth (signal processing),Emulation,Data center,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1/2
1754-3916
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
R. Chertov100.34
Kevin C. Almeroth22551209.40