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RENETO, a realistic network traffic generator for OMNeT++/INET

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Stefan Schneele,

Georg CarleAuthors Info & Claims

SimuTools '13: Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

Pages 73 - 81

Published: 05 March 2013 Publication History

Abstract

We present in this paper RENETO, a packet-level traffic generator for OMNeT++/INET. In order to achieve realistic traffic behavior, a first tool computes a model by doing an automatic analysis of a real traffic capture. This analysis extracts statistical distributions of different parameters of the model (e.g., packet size, inter-arrival time). Based on this first step, we then generate traffic in the OMNeT++ simulator corresponding to the observed behavior. Related traffic analysis and generator often model each studied parameter as one statistical distribution, thus treating them as statistically independent. With this work, we use the concept of linking some parameters and making them correlated, in order to mimic more accurately traffic patterns seen in reality. We apply our method to both UDP and TCP based traffic.

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Geyer FSchneele SCarle GHorvath ABuchholz PCortellessa VMuscariello LSquillante M(2013)Practical performance evaluation of ethernet networks with flow-level network modelingProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools10.4108/icst.valuetools.2013.254367(253-262)Online publication date: 10-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4108/icst.valuetools.2013.254367

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SimuTools '13: Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques

March 2013

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ISBN:9781450324649

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Jan Himmelspach
University of Rostock, Germany
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University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Geyer FSchneele SCarle GHorvath ABuchholz PCortellessa VMuscariello LSquillante M(2013)Practical performance evaluation of ethernet networks with flow-level network modelingProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools10.4108/icst.valuetools.2013.254367(253-262)Online publication date: 10-Dec-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4108/icst.valuetools.2013.254367

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