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International Conference On Emerging Networking Experiments And Technologies archive
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference table of contents

New York, New York

WORKSHOP SESSION: CoNext student workshop table of contents

Article No. 32

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:978-1-59593-770-4

Authors

Alberto Dainotti	University of Napoli, Italy
Alessio Botta	University of Napoli, Italy
Antonio Pescapè	University of Napoli, Italy

Sponsors

IBM : IBM
: Alcatel-Lucent
: CISCO
: IMDEA
SIGCOMM: ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
: Thomson

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Software-based traffic generators are commonly used in experimental research on computer networks. However, there are no much studies focusing on how such instruments are accurate. Here we start a discussion reviewing the problem of using software-based traffic generators over common hardware/software, highlighting interesting issues that pose some threats to common beliefs. We started comparing the operator-requested traffic profile against the real behavior of commonly used software-based traffic generators. We aim at performing tests under different conditions and looking both at packet/bit rate and inter-packet time distribution. Preliminary results show notable differences in some cases, opening the way to interesting discussions and further investigations.

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	1	F. Dressler, "Policy-based traffic generation for IP-based networks", Poster at INFOCOM 2006
	2	Kashi Venkatesh Vishwanath , Amin Vahdat, Realistic and responsive network traffic generation, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, v.36 n.4, October 2006
	3	A. Botta, A. Dainotti, A. Pescapé, "Multi-protocol and multi-platform traffic generation and measurement", INFOCOM 2007 DEMO Session
	4	M. Paredes-Farrera, M. Fleury, M. Ghanbari, "Precision and Accuracy of Network Traffic Generators for Packet-by-Packet Traffic Analysis", 2nd International IEEE TridentCom Conference, pp. 32--27, Barcelona, Mar. 2006.