WINPLEM: A Windows-Based Packet-Level Network Emulator

Author

Cong, Jing ; Wang, Zichao ; Jia, Yanxia

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., DongHua Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

20-22 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Network emulation plays an important role in conducting performance analysis of network protocols and studying various network-related issues, such as Quality of Service of multimedia applications and traffic control algorithms. In this paper, we design and implement a Windows-based network emulator, WINPLEM, using the Network Driver Interface Specification technology. The emulator is capable of emulating various network attributes in real-time, including link bandwidth, packet loss, transmission delay and out-of-order packets. We study the performance of the emulator in trace-driven scenarios as well as in a streaming media application scenario. The experimental results indicate that WINPLEM is an effective network emulation tool for the Windows platform.

Keywords

media streaming; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; transport protocols; user interfaces; WINPLEM; link bandwidth; media streaming; multimedia applications; network driver interface specification technology; network protocols; packet loss; quality of service; traffic control algorithms; transmission delay; windows-based packet-level network emulator; Bandwidth; Delay; Driver circuits; Emulation; Kernel; Out of order; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Technology and Applications, 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5142-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5143-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITAPP.2010.5566409

Filename

5566409