The Design of a Low-Cost Wide Area Network Simulator Conference Paper

abstract

• This paper presents the design of the Bottle-Net WANulator. The Bottle-Net WANulator is an inexpensive and self-contained Wide Area Network (WAN) simulator that can be used for commercial, educational, and research purposes. It inserts artificial latency and limits the bandwidth between network devices in a closed environment. The two Ethernet ports on the WANulator allow for asynchronous configuration; also, throughput statistics are displayable at the user interface, which proved as a useful tool for measuring traffic of multimedia applications. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of the WANulator hardware and software design, which can be implemented at under US$300 per unit. 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

authors

• Goulart, Ana
• Morgan, Joseph

published proceedings

• FUTURE MULTIMEDIA NETWORKING, PROCEEDINGS

author list (cited authors)

• Schmidt, K., Cerney, J., Becker, R., Duffy, P., Goulart, A., & Morgan, J.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Schmidt, Kevin||Cerney, Joe||Becker, Ryan||Duffy, Patrick||Goulart, Ana||Morgan, Joseph

publication date

• November 2009

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science  Journal

keywords

• Ethernet
• Network Emulator
• Token Bucket Filter
• Wide Area Network

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/978-3-642-02472-6_19

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 3642024718

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-3-642-02471-9

start page

• 200

end page

• 205

volume

• 5630

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1007%2F978-3-642-02472-6_19