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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.