LARGE-SCALE TESTS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRATED EMULATION OF ADVANCED NETWORK BEHAVIOR

Reproducing the characteristics of complex network i nfrastructures is not supported by current testing environments for distributed systems. We argue that t e emulation of multi-level topologies and finegrained network behavior is necessary to provide an adequate testbed for experiments with distributed systems. Therefore, we developed an extensible emul ation environment called NESSEE, which emulates application behavior as well as network aspects. Ev aluation results show its applicability for large-s cale tests. Furthermore, the developed NESSEE platform i s actually used by our industry partner Citrix Online for testing video conferencing and eCollabora ti n systems.

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