Synchronized network emulation: Matching prototypes with complex simulations

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 58-63

  Weingärtner, Elias ^a   Schmidt, Florian ^a   Heer, Tobias ^a   Wehrle, Klaus ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COMPLEX SIMULATION; COMPUTER NETWORKING; NETWORK EMULATION; NETWORK SIMULATION; REAL NETWORKS; REAL SYSTEMS; TIME DRIFT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77955389937     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1453175.1453185     Document Type: Article

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