ComNetsEmu: A lightweight emulator

Zuo Xiang; Juan A. Cabrera G.; Sreekrishna Pandi; Patrick Seeling; Frank H.P. Fitzek

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-820488-7.00027-X

ComNetsEmu: A lightweight emulator

Zuo Xiang, Juan A. Cabrera G., Sreekrishna Pandi, Patrick Seeling, Frank H.P. Fitzek

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In this chapter, we present a comprehensive introduction of the ComNets Emulator (ComNetsEmu), which is used as the lightweight Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) test bed for all practical examples of innovations and technologies described in this book. ComNetsEmu emulates a real-world deployment and orchestration of containerized applications running on clusters of physical servers on a single laptop. Initially, we analyze the limitations of the original Mininet network system emulator followed by the motivation to extend it to a holistic test bed for network softwarization. In this chapter, we describe how lightweight, user-friendly approaches and simplified Docker-in-Docker technology are employed by ComNetsEmu to achieve this goal. Furthermore, in this chapter, we introduce the reader to working with ComNetsEmu, from initial deployment to working with the emulator.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computing in Communication Networks
Subtitle of host publication	From Theory to Practice
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	245-256
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128204887
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820488-7.00027-X
State	Published - Jan 1 2020

Keywords

Emulator
Holistic test bed
Lightweight virtualization

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