Testing the fidelity of an Emulab testbed

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 307-312

  Garcia, Andres Perez ^a   Siaterlis, Christos ^a   Masera, Marcelo ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical infrastructures; Emulation; Network test bed; Resilience; System representativeness

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE NUMBER; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CURRENT TRENDS; ECONOMY AND SOCIETY; EMULATION; HARDWARE EMULATION; NETWORK TEST-BED; PERFORMANCE METRICS; REAL SYSTEMS; RESEARCH ACTIVITIES; RESILIENCE; RESPONSE MECHANISMS; SOFTWARE SIMULATION; SYSTEM REPRESENTATIVENESS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; PUBLIC WORKS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 79952032132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW.2010.74     Document Type: Conference Paper

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