A new tool for generating realistic Internet traffic in NS-3

Doreid Ammar; Thomas Begin; Isabelle Guerin-Lassous

4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Research Article

A new tool for generating realistic Internet traffic in NS-3

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245548,
    author={Doreid Ammar and Thomas Begin and Isabelle Guerin-Lassous},
    title={A new tool for generating realistic Internet traffic in NS-3},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2012},
    month={7},
    keywords={Network simulator 3 traffic generator model Long Range Dependent Poisson Pareto Burst Process.},
    doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245548}
}

Doreid Ammar
Thomas Begin
Isabelle Guerin-Lassous
Year: 2012
A new tool for generating realistic Internet traffic in NS-3
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245548

Doreid Ammar¹^,*, Thomas Begin², Isabelle Guerin-Lassous²

1: INRIA
2: Université Lyon 1

*Contact email: doreid.ammar@ens-lyon.fr

Abstract

This paper provides a contribution for NS-3 consisting of a new tool for generating Internet traffic. This tool is based on the Poisson Pareto Burst Process (PPBP), a Long-Range Dependent (LRD) model for network traffic. The PPBP model provides a simple and accurate network traffic generator that matches statistical properties of real-life IP networks. We have implemented this model in NS-3. We evaluate the computing performance of this PPBP implementation. Our results show a moderate overhead introduction in terms of memory needs and a roughly identical cost in CPU time as compared to a simple Poisson traffic generator.

Keywords: Network simulator 3 traffic generator model Long Range Dependent Poisson Pareto Burst Process.

Published: 2012-07-05
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245548