Flexlab: A Realistic, Controlled, and Friendly Environment for Evaluating Networked Systems

5th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 103-108

  Duerig, Jonathon ^a   Ricci, Robert ^a   Zhang, Junxing ^a   Gebhardt, Daniel ^a   Kasera, Sneha ^a   Lepreau, Jay ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

APPLICATION-CENTRIC; ARBITRARY NETWORKS; DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION; INTERNET MODELS; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; NETWORK LOAD; NETWORK MODELS; NETWORKED SYSTEMS; PATH CHARACTERISTIC; RESEARCH PROTOTYPE;

EID: 84897769943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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