As a number of diverse satellite systems (both Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary systems) are being designed and deployed, it becomes increasingly important to be able to test these systems under realistic traffic loads. While software simulations can provide valuable input into the system design process, it is crucial that the physical system be tested so that actual network devices can be employed and tuned. These tests need to utilize traffic patterns that closely mirror the expected user load, without the need to actually deploy an end-user network for the test. In this paper, we present trafgen. trafgen uses statistical information about the characteristics of sampled network traffic to emulate the same type of traffic over the test network. This paper compares sampled terrestrial network traffic with emulated satellite network traffic over the NASA ACTS satellite.


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    Title :

    Satellite Network Performance Measurements Using Simulated Multi-User Internet Traffic


    Contributors:
    Kruse, Hans (author) / Allman, Mark (author) / Griner, Jim (author) / Ostermann, Shawn (author) / Helvey, Eric (author)

    Conference:

    Telecommunications Systems ; 1999 ; Nashville, TN, United States


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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