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Do you know what you are generating?

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Alberto Dainotti,

Alessio Botta,

Antonio PescapèAuthors Info & Claims

CoNEXT '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM CoNEXT conference

Article No.: 32, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/1364654.1364695

Published: 10 December 2007 Publication History

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Software-based traffic generators are commonly used in experimental research on computer networks. However, there are no much studies focusing on how such instruments are accurate. Here we start a discussion reviewing the problem of using software-based traffic generators over common hardware/software, highlighting interesting issues that pose some threats to common beliefs. We started comparing the operator-requested traffic profile against the real behavior of commonly used software-based traffic generators. We aim at performing tests under different conditions and looking both at packet/bit rate and inter-packet time distribution. Preliminary results show notable differences in some cases, opening the way to interesting discussions and further investigations.

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DOI:10.1145/1364654

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