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DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF HIGH SPEED IP NETWORKS

IMUNES network emulator is an excellent replacement for general purpose testbed, since it decreases the cost of equipment and management while increasing the scalability. However, IMUNES works on only one machine, so it has a limit in scalability, disallowing large-scale networks to be emulated. To circumvent this problem in this thesis we describe a distributed network simulator based on IMUNES. The distributed simulator is based on decentralized architecture, and thus avoiding the bottleneck. In addition, a novel algorithm for creating Internet-like topologies was designed, and the usability of two different graph partitioning algorithms was tested. The whole system was designed, implemented and evaluated. The results show that a decentralized version of distributed IMUNES is feasible. Moreover, the resulting system can be built in a scalable, transparent and secure manner while keeping the benefits of IMUNES.

network simulator; network emulator; IMUNES; distributed system; decentralized architecture; network performance; Internet; scalability; transparency; security; network topology; Internet-like networks; scale-free networks; graph partitioning

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