TrafficGen Architecture Document

Abstract

Network science experimentation often requires modeling of realistic network traffic specific to the experiment environment and goals. The multi-generator (MGEN) tool, developed by the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), reads scripts to generate real-time traffic patterns to load the network with Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Internet Protocol (IP) traffic. Each node generating network traffic in an experiment executes a copy of MGEN and requires a custom script to represent its traffic patterns. While this approach works well for smaller experiments, managing the scripts and generating meaningful interaction of network node traffic via the scripts becomes more cumbersome as the number of network nodes increases. This report describes the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) Network Science Research Laboratory (NSRL) TrafficGen application, which eases the task of composing network traffic scenarios by visually representing multiple MGEN scripts simultaneously in a timeline.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1002303

Entities

People

  • Andrew J. Toth
  • Chien Hsieh

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Buildings And Structures
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Generators
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Information Science
  • Internet
  • Military Research
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Networks
  • Teamwork
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Computer Vision.