[p2p-hackers] simulator for p2p

[Sean C. Rhea]

On Feb 1, 2005, at 11:27 AM, David L. Oppenheimer wrote:
>> Bamboo (bamboo-dht.org) comes with a simple simulator that models
>> latency based on real measurements (the data is from here:
>> http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/p2psim/kingdata/).  It's a pretty simple
>> event-driven simulator written in Java; the nice thing about
>> it is that you can use the same code under simulation that you use on 
>> the real net.
>
> And because you can run the same code on the "real net," you can run 
> the
> same code under emulation on a cluster to study bandwidth effects.

That's a good point.  We run the same code under the Bamboo simulator, 
on a local cluster using ModelNet 
(http://issg.cs.duke.edu/modelnet.html) to provide wide-area-like 
latency and bandwidth restrictions, and on PlanetLab 
(http://planet-lab.org/).

Sean
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