Towards a Common Interface for Overlay Network Simulators
Key: Gro10-1
Author: Christian Groß, Max Lehn, Dominik Stingl, Aleksandra Kovacevic, Alejandro Buchmann, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: December 2010
Kind: In proceedings
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Book title: Proceedings of the 2010 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010)
Keywords: Simulation, Peer-to-Peer, Interface, Common API, Overlay, Testbed, Simulator-Design
Abstract: Simulation has become an important evaluation method in the area of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) research due to the scalability limitations of evaluation testbeds such as PlanetLab or G-Lab. Current simulators provide various abstraction levels for different underlay models, such that applications can be evaluated at different granularity. However, existing simulators suffer from a lack of interoperability and portability making the comparison of research results extremely difficult. To overcome this problem, we present an approach for a generic application interface for discrete-event P2P overlay network simulators. It enables porting of the same implementation of a targeted application once and then running it on various simulators as well as in a real network environment, thereby enabling a diverse and extensive evaluation. We established the feasibility of our approach and showed negligible memory and runtime overhead.
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