Efficient and scalable network emulation using adaptive virtual time

Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Grau, Andreas ^a   Herrmann, Klaus ^a   Rothermel, Kurt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive virtual time; Network emulation; Performance evaluation; Time dilation; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE VIRTUAL TIME; NETWORK EMULATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; TIME DILATION; VIRTUALIZATION;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70449131220     PISSN: 10952055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2009.5235306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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