doi: 10.4304/jsw.2.2.11-18
Modeling Network Behaviour By Full-System Simulation
- 1 University of Malaga/Departamento de Ingenieria de Comunicaciones, Malaga, Spain
- 2 University of Granada/Departamento de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores, Granada, Spain
Abstract
Due to the network technology advances, anorder-of-magnitude jump has been produced in the networkbandwidth. This fact has returned to wake up the intereston protocol offloading, since network communication is akey factor for system performance. Thus, much researchwork on offloading is been done, particularly on TCPoffloading as it has been the main transport protocol formany years, and in fact, it is the most used protocol in thenetworks. Nevertheless, some recent studies on protocoloffloading have produced some controversy about itsbenefits.This paper describes a model to simulate the protocoloffloading by using the simulator Simics. It can be used fora functional system simulation, including the applicationprogram, the operating system, the protocol stack and thedevice drivers, since network-oriented applications requirethis kind of full-system simulation. Nevertheless, as Simicsdoes not provide a detailed network I/O model, in this paperwe describe the way we have overcome this problem.
Keywords
- full-system simulation
- simics
- offloadi
How to Cite
Andres Ortiz, Julio Ortega, Antonio F. Diaz, and Alberto Prieto, "Modeling Network Behaviour By Full-System Simulation," Journal of Software, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 11-18, 2007. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.2.2.11-18
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Copyright © 2007 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).