A scalable and reusable emulator for evaluating the performance of SS7 networks

Author

Lazar, Aurel A. ; Tseng, Kent H. ; Lim, Koon Seng ; Choe, Winston

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

12

Issue

3

fYear

1994

fDate

4/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

404

Abstract

A scalable and reusable emulator was designed and implemented for studying the behavior of SS7 networks. The emulator design was largely based on public domain software. It was developed on top of an environment supported by PVM, the Parallel Virtual Machine, and managed by OSIMIS-the OSI Management Information Service platform. The emulator runs on top of a commercially available ATM LAN interconnecting engineering workstations. As a case study for evaluating the emulator, the behavior of the Singapore National SS7 Network under fault and unbalanced loading conditions was investigated

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; open systems; performance evaluation; public domain software; telecommunication signalling; telecommunications computing; ATM LAN; OSI Management Information Service platform; OSIMIS; Parallel Virtual Machine; SS7 networks; Singapore; emulator design; engineering workstations; fault conditions; performance evaluation; public domain software; reusable emulator; scalable emulator; unbalanced loading conditions; Emulation; Environmental management; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Real time systems; Scalability; Software libraries; Software reusability; Virtual machining; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.285300

Filename

285300