11th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

Research Article

VITO: VIrtual Testbed Orchestration for Automation of Networking Experiments

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274692,
        author={Andreas  Stockmayer and Christian  Kindermann and Michael  Menth},
        title={VITO: VIrtual Testbed Orchestration for Automation of Networking Experiments},
        proceedings={11th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={VALUETOOLS},
        year={2018},
        month={8},
        keywords={testbed networking virtual machines simulation experimentation performance evaluation},
        doi={10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274692}
    }
    
  • Andreas Stockmayer
    Christian Kindermann
    Michael Menth
    Year: 2018
    VITO: VIrtual Testbed Orchestration for Automation of Networking Experiments
    VALUETOOLS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274692
Andreas Stockmayer1,*, Christian Kindermann1, Michael Menth1
  • 1: University of Tuebingen
*Contact email: andreas.stockmayer@uni-tuebingen.de

Abstract

In this paper we describe the VIrtual Testbed Orchestration platform VITO. It automates networking experiments in a virtualized environment on a single server. It serves for performance evaluation of networking protocols. Networking nodes are modelled by virtual machines and the Linux module TC is used to model link characteristics: netem applies link properties like packet delay, jitter, etc. and tbf enforces bandwidth limitations including buffer sizes.An experimental performance analysis gives recommendations for tbf configuration and provides an application example.