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Scalable Network Emulator Architecture for IP Optical Network Management
Eiji OKI Nattapong KITSUWAN Shunichi TSUNODA Takashi MIYAMURA Akeo MASUDA Kohei SHIOMOTO
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E93-B
No.7
pp.1931-1934 Publication Date: 2010/07/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E93.B.1931 Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: LETTER Category: Network Keyword: network emulator, network management, IP optical network,
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Summary:
This letter proposes a scalable network emulator architecture to support IP optical network management. The network emulator uses the same router interfaces to communicate with the IP optical TE server as the actual IP optical network, and behaves as an actual IP optical network between the interfaces. The network emulator mainly consists of databases and three modules: interface module, resource simulator module, and traffic generator module. To make the network emulator scalable in terms of network size, we employ TCP/IP socket communications between the modules. The proposed network emulator has the benefit that its implementation is not strongly dependent on hardware limitations. We develop a prototype of the network emulator based on the proposed architecture. Our design and experiments show that the proposed architecture is effective.
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