NETWORK IN A BOX

François Gagnon, Babak Esfandiari, Tomas Dej

2010

Abstract

VNEC (Virtual Network Experiment Controller) is an open source tool for specifying and executing network experiments in a virtual environment. The user first describes the network topology, and then provides the tasks that should be performed by the hosts, together with their execution order. Next, VNEC initializes the environment by configuring and powering on the corresponding virtual machines to match the desired network topology. Finally, commands are dispatched to the proper virtual machines in the specified order. VNEC can hence be used for many types of network experiments. This paper presents the architecture of VNEC and discusses its implementation.

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Gagnon F., Esfandiari B. and Dej T. (2010). NETWORK IN A BOX . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-25-6, pages 55-60. DOI: 10.5220/0002891600550060


in Bibtex Style

@conference{dcnet10,
author={François Gagnon and Babak Esfandiari and Tomas Dej},
title={NETWORK IN A BOX},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={55-60},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002891600550060},
isbn={978-989-8425-25-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: DCNET, (ICETE 2010)
TI - NETWORK IN A BOX
SN - 978-989-8425-25-6
AU - Gagnon F.
AU - Esfandiari B.
AU - Dej T.
PY - 2010
SP - 55
EP - 60
DO - 10.5220/0002891600550060