Research report: DEIM-RR-08-002
Title
PlanetSim: An extensible framework for overlay network and services simulations
Author/s
Jordi Pujol Ahulló, Pedro García López, Marc Sànchez Artigas, Marcel Arrufat Arias, Gerard París Aixalà, Max Bruchmann
Date
11-01-2008
Research team
Architecture and Telematic Services Research Group
Research report type
Recerca
Language
English
Number of pages
10
Summary
Research community on distributed systems, and in particular on peer-to-peer systems, needs tools for evaluating their own protocols and services, as well as against other protocols with the same precondictions. Since a (TCP/IP) experimental evaluation is not always feasible, simulation tools appeared.
In this paper we introduce PlanetSim, a discrete event-based simulation framework for overlay networks and services, as well as extensions from third parties that prove its true extensibility and adaptability to the reserarchers? needs. In addition, we introduce within PlanetSim a novel way of implementing
peer-to-peer overlay protocols based on behaviors.
Keywords
Overlay network simulator, discrete event-based simulation, frameworks, design patterns.
