NEPTUNE network emulation for protocol tuning and evaluation

Abstract

In the last few years many emulation systems have been developed to evaluate the effectiveness of new protocols and applications in realistic and controllable network scenarios. NEPTUNE is a flexible architecture for cluster-based network emulation systems designed and implemented at University of Napoli Federico II. In this poster we present the key components of the NEPTUNE architecture, an in particular the NEPTUNE manager, an open-source software managing the lifecycle of emulation experiments

Dynamic Virtual Cluster Reconfiguration for Efficient IaaS Provisioning

“…Originally born as a cluster based network emulation system [2], NEPTUNE-IaaS is a software system developed at University of Napoli Federico II that allows interactive design of networked virtual infrastructures on geographically distributed datacenters, to help provisioning of "Infrastructures as a Service". Our system consists of an interactive client/server software system used to provide users with the possibility of describing and designing the desired virtual infrastructure and of a set of other components that make it possible for services deployed at a given datacenter to be transparently migrated in remote datacenters for load balancing or fault/disaster recovery.…”