1. Introduction -- Part I: The ins and outs of network emulation -- 2. Network emulation 101 -- 3. Emulators in the wild -- Part II: Network emulators to remember -- 4. Free network emulators -- 5. Commercial network emulators -- 6. Emulation-capable network simulators -- 7. Network emulation testbeds -- 8. More to consider -- Part III: A case study -- 9. QOMB Overview -- 10. QOMET -- 11. StarBED -- 12. QOMET on StarBED -- 13. QOMB Experiments -- 14. Concluding remarks.
Summary
Emulation is a hybrid experimentation technique intended to bridge the gap between simulation and real-world testing. The key idea of emulation is to reproduce in real time and in a controlled manner the essential functionality of a system, so that it can interact with other real systems that can thus be evaluated. This book describes the technique of network emulation and compares it with the other experimental approaches: the scholarly analytical modeling, the popular network simulation, and the demanding real-world testing. To emphasize the practical aspects related to emulation, this book.
