A stance on emulation and testbeds, and a survey of network emulators and testbeds

21st European Conference on Modelling and Simulation: Simulations in United Europe, ECMS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 503-508

  Göktürk, Erek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Emulation; Network emulation; Network testbeds; Testbeds

Indexed keywords

EMULATION; NETWORK EMULATION; NETWORK EMULATORS; NETWORK TESTBEDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SURVEYS;

TESTBEDS;

EID: 84857519652     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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