[e2e] Netspec

[Sireen Habib Malik]

Hi,

Here is one reference paper for generating web-traffic,"A Light Weight 
Traffic Source for Web Traffic Simulation "in GLOBECOM/CAMAD-2004.

Paper copy at: http://www.tu-harburg.de/et6/papers/papers_all.html

Hope it helps,
Malik


Sudeep Goyal wrote:

> Thanks a lot Prasad. I would definitely try the tool. This solves me a 
> problem for VoIP and other stream traffic. But, I am not sure if 
> elastic traffic (like ftp, http, mail or ERP) can be done using this. 
> Can you kindly suggest some way?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Sudeep
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Prasad Calyam wrote:
>
>> hi Sudeep,
>> You could try our software "H.323 Beacon"
>> It generates various codecs traffic (VoIP traffic) and determines
>> network performance and end-user perceived quality scores (E-Model
>> parameters) for the test traffic stream....
>>
>> The software can be found at-
>> http://www.itecohio.org/beacon
>>
>> Let me know if you have questions or comments about the tool...
>>
>> -Prasad
>>
>> Sudeep Goyal wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> Does anyone have a copy of Netspec? It used to open-source and 
>>> available on http://www.ittc.ku.edu/netspec/. Its no longer there. I 
>>> need it for testing of end-to-end application performance on my MPLS 
>>> test-bed. It emulates many application traffic like MPEG, VoIP, FTP 
>>> and measure their end-to-end performance. And this is what I need to 
>>> do.
>>>
>>>  I can use traffic generators (like TG) for the same, but I want to 
>>> do application performance analysis for different applications. Is 
>>> there another alternative with which I can know and generate traffic 
>>> similar to different applications?
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Sudeep
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Steven Berson wrote:
>>>
>>>> IPv8 is already taken - see RFC 1621.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>> David G. Andersen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:01:23AM -0700, Joe Touch scribed:
>>>>>
>>>>>> PS - if you're going to pick some bits to modify that existing 
>>>>>> routers might already drop, why not just use another IP version?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  May I suggest IPv8?  In addition to being aesthetically pleasing
>>>>> as a power of two, you can talk to up to 8 galaxies with it... or
>>>>> at least, one person who may well be from another galaxy. ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>  -Dave
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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