Title
TimeSync: Virtual time for scalable, high-fidelity hybrid network emulation
Abstract
Hybrid network emulation (HNE) comprises a discrete event simulated network and virtual machines that send and receive traffic through the simulated network. It allows testing network applications rather than their models on simulated target networks, particularly mobile wireless networks. Scalability of this test approach is hindered by the time divergence problem: for complex, large-scale simulations, discrete event simulation time advances slower than real time, distorting packet propagation characteristics. To address this problem, we developed TimeSync, a system that uses discrete event simulation time to control and synchronize time advance on virtual machines for large-scale hybrid network emulation. In this paper, we describe how TimeSync controls and synchronizes time perception in hybrid network emulation between simulator and virtual machines, and present experimental results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/MILCOM.2012.6415841
MILCOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
discrete event simulation,mobile radio,telecommunication computing,telecommunication network reliability,virtual machines,hne,timesync controls,complex large-scale simulations,discrete event simulated network,mobile wireless networks,packet propagation characteristic distortion,scalable high-fidelity hybrid network emulation,simulated target networks,time divergence problem,time perception synchronization
High fidelity,Mobile radio,Synchronization,Virtual machine,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Real-time computing,Discrete event simulation,Network emulation,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2155-7578
978-1-4673-1729-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Florin Sultan114512.42
Alex Poylisher2365.40
Constantin Serban3598.07
ritu chadha john lee410.36
C. Jason Chiang5102.14