Data center network operators often need accurate estimates of aggregate network performance. Unfortunately, existing methods for estimating aggregate network statistics are either inaccurate or too slow to be practical at the data center scale.

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Wi-Fi is evolving towards enhanced support for real-time applications such as video conferencing and virtual reality (VR) gaming. The latest IEEE 802.11be draft standard introduces various advancements including multi-link operation (MLO) at the medium ...

A stochastic network simulation is verified when its distribution of outputs is aligned with the ground truth, while tolerating deviations due to variability in real-world measurements and the randomness of a stochastic simulation. However, comparing ...

Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) is used by sandbox-based dynamic malware detection and analysis frameworks to observe malware samples while staying isolated and stealthy. Sandbox detection and evasion techniques based on hypervisor introspection are ...

Analyzing a network's behavior during convergence is challenging due to its highly non-deterministic nature. To address this, we developed BGPseer, the first analyzer that predicts specification violations during BGP convergence without network ...

Testing and validating IoT applications is inherently complex due to the number of devices involved that should communicate with each other and with cloud infrastructures. Models, emulators and testbeds are used to validate parts of the solution, but the ...

Network simulators have been widely used to test and benchmark communication networks, their protocols and services. While new simulators have been developed and existing ones have evolved to account for new network technologies and standards, adapting ...

Prototyping novel social computing systems is a challenge in the field of Social Computing. Rapid experimentation with novel social network sites can offer valuable insights into their pro-social benefits before their public release to a large audience. ...

Visualization of network simulation is an essential tool for network practitioners. However, the front-end of existing network simulators often fails to deliver satisfactory performance when dealing with modern network scales and interface speed. In this ...

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is an essential tool for network practitioners. Unfortunately, existing DES simulators cannot achieve satisfactory performance at the scale of modern networks. Recent work has attempted to address these challenges by ...

Network transmission with multiple interfaces is desirable for the next-generation Internet to improve end-to-end performance and reliability. Multipath QUIC is thus proposed to utilize multiple interfaces for Internet transmission with QUIC, while QUIC ...

Channel modeling is a fundamental task for the design and evaluation of wireless technologies and networks, before actual prototyping, commercial product development and real deployments. The recent trends of current and future mobile networks, which ...

The performance of Wi-Fi networks depends on the ability of devices to adapt their transmissions to dynamic channel/network conditions. Hence, “Rate Adaptation Algorithms (RAAs)” have been devised to allow nodes to select appropriate modulation and ...

Wireless communication in autonomous mobile agents has an inhibitive barrier to entry, especially in unmanned areal vehicles (UAV). This paper presents DroNS-3, a comprehensive library that aims to significantly lower the barrier to entry into the ...

We investigate how trust can be defined and exploited in the problem of accepting a candidate for enrollment in a group in a distributed setting. A simulation in Python using the NetworkX package has the servers (nodes) implement the WedID protocol. Each ...

Aiming at the authenticity and credibility of DDoS attacks in the current network simulation environment, a Hardware-In-the-Loop DDoS attack simulation system is proposed, the key problems such as virtual-real conversion interface, routing control and ...

Fully disaggregated device deployments in optical networks propose to drive down network upgrade costs. These devices are managed by open-source control plane solutions for multi-vendor interoperability, which need to be tested in a simulation ...

The growing complexity and capacity demands for mobile networks necessitate innovative techniques for optimizing resource usage. Meanwhile, recent breakthroughs have brought Reinforcement Learning (RL) into the domain of continuous control of real-world ...

Network simulators are an essential tool for network operators, and can assist important tasks such as capacity planning, topology design, and parameter tuning. Popular simulators are all based on discrete event simulation, and their performance does not ...

This paper reports on significant updates that were made to ns-3’s Direct Code Execution (DCE) feature to restore its compatibility with modern Linux distributions and kernel stacks. Recent versions of the GNU C standard library introduced security ...