The Study of Mobile Network Protocols with Virtual Machines

D. Rehunathan; S. Bhatti; V. Perrier; P. Hiu

4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

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The Study of Mobile Network Protocols with Virtual Machines

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245607,
    author={D. Rehunathan and S. Bhatti and V. Perrier and P. Hiu},
    title={The Study of Mobile Network Protocols with Virtual Machines},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={Network Protocols Protocol Verification Applications},
    doi={10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245607}
}

D. Rehunathan
S. Bhatti
V. Perrier
P. Hiu
Year: 2012
The Study of Mobile Network Protocols with Virtual Machines
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245607

D. Rehunathan¹^,*, S. Bhatti¹, V. Perrier², P. Hiu³

1: University of St Andrews
2: Clownix
3: Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (Berlin)

*Contact email: dr@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk

Abstract

With the rapid proliferation of wireless mobile devices in todays society, it is becoming increasingly useful to aggregate mobile devices moving together as a single mobile network. It is also necessary to test new mobile network applications and protocols (e.g. NEMO) in realistic scenarios, where an incremental development approach can be adopted in order to experiment and explore. We present a simulation framework, Cloonix-Net, a virtual network tool using User Mode Linux (UML) machines, for the purposes of building and testing such scenarios. We show that studying mobile network protocols with such a framework is a beneficial step towards better understanding network mobility protocols.

Keywords: Network Protocols Protocol Verification Applications

Published: 2012-04-13
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.simutools.2011.245607