| Andreas Grau
| Harald Weinschrott
| creator |
Grau, Andreas
| | Weinschrott, Harald
| | Schwarzer, Christopher
| | date |
2006-10-09
| | | | description |
89 pages
| |
Evaluation of distributed applications and network protocols is a
difficult task, which can hardly be done by means of real world
experiments. Also simulation cannot always be a good approach,
because the test subject has to be adapted. Emulation as a third
approach, which tries to combine the benefits of both real world
experiments and simulation. With increasing hardware performance,
emulation based on virtual machines, becomes feasible. Therefore,
this case study evaluates the suitability of virtual machine
implementations with different designs for use in computer network
emulation. A comparison is drawn to an emulation approach based on
virtual routing. It is shown that virtual machines are suitable for
network emulation, however there are huge performance differences
between the different implementations, and huge hardware
requirements are needed compared to other computer network emulation
approaches.
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