ENDE: An end-to-end network delay emulator tool for multimedia protocol development Academic Article

abstract

• Multimedia applications and protocols are constantly being developed to run over the Internet. A new protocol or application after being developed has to be tested on the real Internet or simulated on a testbed for debugging and performance evaluation. In this paper, we present a novel tool, ENDE, that can emulate end-to-end delays between two hosts without requiring access to the second host. The tool enables the user to test new multimedia protocols realistically on a single machine. In a delay-observing mode, ENDE can generate accurate traces of one-way delays between two hosts on the network. In a delay-impacting mode, ENDE can be used to simulate the functioning of a protocol or an application as if it were running on the network. We will show that ENDE allows accurate estimation of one-way transit times and hence can be used even when the forward and reverse paths are asymmetric between the two hosts. Experimental results are also presented to show that ENDE is fairly accurate in the delay-impacing mode.

authors

• Reddy, Narasimha

published proceedings

• MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS

author list (cited authors)

• Yeom, I., & Reddy, A.

citation count

• 11

complete list of authors

• Yeom, I||Reddy, ALN

publication date

• August 2001

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Multimedia Tools and Applications  Journal

keywords

• Delay Emulation
• Internet
• Multimedia Protocol/application Development
• Network Simulation
• One-way Transit Times
• Packet Behavior

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1023/A:1011314230120

start page

• 269

end page

• 296

volume

• 14

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/a:1011314230120