1st International ICST Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet

Research Article

DeSiNe: a flow-level QoS Simulator of Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.3006,
        author={T. Kleiberg and B. Fu and F. A. Kuipers and P. Van Mieghem and S. Avallone and B. Quoitin},
        title={DeSiNe: a flow-level QoS Simulator of Networks},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on the Evaluation of Quality of Service through Simulation in the Future Internet},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={QOSIM},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Simulation Computer networks Quality-of-Service},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.3006}
    }
    
  • T. Kleiberg
    B. Fu
    F. A. Kuipers
    P. Van Mieghem
    S. Avallone
    B. Quoitin
    Year: 2010
    DeSiNe: a flow-level QoS Simulator of Networks
    QOSIM
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.3006
T. Kleiberg1,*, B. Fu1, F. A. Kuipers1, P. Van Mieghem1, S. Avallone2, B. Quoitin3
  • 1: Networking, Architectures and Services Group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
  • 2: COMICS Lab, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.
  • 3: IP Networking Lab, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
*Contact email: T.J.Kleiberg@tudelft.nl

Abstract

In this paper we present DeSiNe, a modular flow-level network simulator. DeSiNe is aimed at performance analysis and benchmarking of Quality of Service routing algorithms and traffic engineering extensions. Several well-known QoS routing algorithms and traffic engineering extensions have been implemented in De- SiNe. The flow-level nature provides scalability, such that large networks and heavy-traffic conditions are possible. In this paper, the functional and structural design of DeSiNe are presented and the usability and various features are illustrated by means of several examples. The source code of DeSiNe is publicly available.