Reproducible network experiments using container-based emulation

CoNEXT 2012 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 253-264

  Handigol, Nikhil ^a   Heller, Brandon ^a   Jeyakumar, Vimalkumar ^a   Lantz, Bob ^b   McKeown, Nick ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Open Networking Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Container based emulation; Reproducible research

Indexed keywords

CONTAINER-BASED EMULATION; HARDWARE TESTBEDS; IDEAL WORLDS; MULTI CORE; NETWORK ELEMENT; NETWORK SYSTEMS; REAL APPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBLE RESEARCH; RESEARCH PAPERS; RESEARCH RESULTS; ROUTER BUFFER; SOFTWARE SIMULATOR; STANFORD;

CONTAINERS; STUDENTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84872001277     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2413176.2413206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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