[Nets-seminars] Talk today UCL EE

[Richard G. Clegg]

Don't forget today's talk in UCL Electronic Engineering.  GS/102 in 
66-72 Gower street at 16:00.  The speaker is our own Lorenzo Saino.

Title:
FNSS: A Toolchain for Simplifying Network Simulation Setup

Abstract:
Arguably, one of the most cumbersome and error-prone tasks required to run a network simulation is the setup of a fully configured network topology and its deployment in the target simulator. This process includes selecting a suitable topology, provision it with all required parameters (such as link capacities, weights and latencies), allocate and configure traffic endpoints, assign request rates to traffic sources or generate traffic matrices and, finally, deploy the complete network configuration in the target simulator.

A large number of tools exist to address some of these tasks. However, all of them exhibit some shortcomings. For example, some tools do not provide algorithms for provisioning link capacities, weights, delays and buffers, while others only support a specific simulator. Because of this situation, a user often needs to either integrate heterogeneous software components or implement the desired features by himself/herself, both of which are time-consuming and error-prone.

To address these issues, I will present in this talk the Fast Network Simulation Setup (FNSS) toolchain. It provides capabilities for parsing topologies from datasets or generating them synthetically, assign desired configuration parameters and generate traffic matrices or event schedules. It also provides APIs for a number of programming languages and network simulators to easily deploy the configured network topology in the target simulator.


-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/