Presentation 2018-11-15
Integration of repeatable computer system emulator and network simulator
Yuuki Shimizu, Mineo Takai, Keiji Kimura,
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Abstract(in English) Network simulation combined with a computer system emulator is an attractive approach. It can avoid complex and error-prone modeling work for the target network applications by executing real applications and OS on the emulator. However, this may spoil the repeatability, which is the important characteristics of network simulation, because a computer system emulator usually consists of multiple threads whose scheduling depends on the state of the host machine. The loss of repeatability makes the investigation of the simulations results difficult due to, for instance, uncertainty of the effect of simulation settings. In this paper, based on QEMU as the target computer system emulator, we propose a repeatable communication technique among multiple QEMU instances involved in a network simulator. For the experimental evaluation, we simulate a network having ten nodes, each of which is executed on a QEMU instance. The experimental result shows the communications among QEMU instances can successfully obtain repeatability.
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Keyword(in English) Network Simulator / Emulator / Virtual Machine / Synchronization / Repeatability
Paper # MoNA2018-22,CNR2018-19
Date of Issue 2018-11-08 (MoNA, CNR)

Conference Information
Committee MoNA / IN / CNR
Conference Date 2018/11/15(2days)
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Place (in English) Karatsu Civic Exchange Plaza
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) M2M, IoT, Self Organization, Autonomous Distributed Control, Car Area Network, Car-Car network, Car-Road Network, ITS, Big Data Analysis, Cyber Physical System (CPS), Mobile Virtualization, Mobile Application, Cloud Robotics Service, etc.
Chair Ryoichi Shinkuma(Kyoto Univ.) / Takuji Kishida(NTT-AT) / Tetsuo Ono(Hokkaido Univ.)
Vice Chair Shigeaki Tagashira(Kansai Univ.) / Gen Kitagata(Tohoku Univ.) / Kenji Ishida(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Masayuki Kanbara(NAIST) / Kazunori Takashio(Keio Univ.)
Secretary Shigeaki Tagashira(Kyushu Univ.) / Gen Kitagata(NEC) / Kenji Ishida(Kyoto Univ.) / Masayuki Kanbara(NTT DOCOMO) / Kazunori Takashio(KDDI Research)
Assistant Ken Usui(KDDI Research) / Kenji Kanai(Waseda Univ.) / / Wataru Mito(SECOM) / Yuka Kobayashi(Toshiba) / Tatsuya Ishihara(NTT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Mobile Network and Applications / Technical Committee on Information Networks / Technical Committee on Cloud Network Robotics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Integration of repeatable computer system emulator and network simulator
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Network Simulator
Keyword(2) Emulator
Keyword(3) Virtual Machine
Keyword(4) Synchronization
Keyword(5) Repeatability
1st Author's Name Yuuki Shimizu
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Mineo Takai
2nd Author's Affiliation Osaka University(Osaka Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Keiji Kimura
3rd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
Date 2018-11-15
Paper # MoNA2018-22,CNR2018-19
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) MoNA-305,CNR-306
Page pp.pp.1-6(MoNA), pp.7-12(CNR),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-11-08 (MoNA, CNR)