Dewal, Faras Mohan (2016) A Testbed for Simulation-based Analysis of Forwarding Plane. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
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Abstract
A Testbed for Simulation-based Analysis of Forwarding Plane
- Faras Mohan Dewal
Master of Applied Science (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Concordia University, Montreal QC, 2016
This thesis presents a testbed capable of generating scalable realistic network traffic on a standalone machine. The functionality of the proposed testbed is to model a scalable network of client and server instances and generate network traffic to perform simulation based-analysis of forwarding plane designs. The testbed enables the designer to successfully conduct experiments on the design under test using realistic traffic profiles and assess the performance for multiple use cases.
The proposed testbed defines simulation models for client and server nodes. The testbed modeling has been abstracted to three different levels. First, a base node design allows us to instantiate and manage multiple instances within the node. Second, a transmission protocol is implemented to enable data transfer between client and server instances. The final stage is the Internet application modeling stage. Our experiments show that we are able to reliably generate network traffic for up to 400 client and server instances on a standalone machine.
| Divisions: | Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
| Authors: | Dewal, Faras Mohan |
| Institution: | Concordia University |
| Degree Name: | M.A. Sc. |
| Program: | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Date: | July 2016 |
| Thesis Supervisor(s): | Abdi, Samar |
| Keywords: | System-level design, Networking, Traffic generator, SystemC, |
| ID Code: | 981464 |
| Deposited By: | FARAS MOHAN DEWAL |
| Deposited On: | 08 Nov 2016 14:49 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2018 17:53 |
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