Performance evaluation of an open distributed platform for realistic traffic generation

Performance Evaluation

Volumn 60, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 359-392

  Avallone, Stefano ^a   Emma, Donato ^a   Pescapé, Antonio ^a   Ventre, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Distributed network traffic generator; MPI; Network analysis; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PACKET NETWORKS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

DISTRIBUTED NETWORK TRAFFIC GENERATORS; MPI; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 14544299258     PISSN: 01665316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peva.2004.10.012     Document Type: Article

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