An ATM distributed simulator for network management research

Due to the high cost of a large ATM network working up to full strength to apply our ideas about network management, i.e., dynamic virtual path (VP) management and fault restoration, we developed a distributed simulation platform for performing our experiments. This platform also had to be capable o...

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Autores: Marzo i Lázaro, Josep Lluís, Vilà Talleda, Pere, Fàbrega i Soler, Lluís, Massaguer i Pla, Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/2240
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/2240
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mode de transferència asíncrona
Ordinadors, Xarxes d'
Ordinadors, Xarxes d' -- Mètodes de simulació
Asynchronous transfer mode
Computer networks
Computer networks -- Simulation methods
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Sumario:Due to the high cost of a large ATM network working up to full strength to apply our ideas about network management, i.e., dynamic virtual path (VP) management and fault restoration, we developed a distributed simulation platform for performing our experiments. This platform also had to be capable of other sorts of tests, such as connection admission control (CAC) algorithms, routing algorithms, and accounting and charging methods. The platform was posed as a very simple, event-oriented and scalable simulation. The main goal was the simulation of a working ATM backbone network with a potentially large number of nodes (hundreds). As research into control algorithms and low-level, or rather cell-level methods, was beyond the scope of this study, the simulation took place at a connection level, i.e., there was no real traffic of cells. The simulated network behaved like a real network accepting and rejecting SNMP ones, or experimental tools using the API node