Hans Kruse, Mark Allman, Jim Griner, Shawn Ostermann, Eric Helvey. Satellite Network Performance Measurements Using Simulated Multi-User Internet Traffic. March 1999. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Telecommunication Systems.
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Abstract:

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.

BibTeX:

@inproceedings{kruse99a,
    author    =        "Hans Kruse and Mark Allman and Jim Griner and Shawn Ostermann and Eric Helvey",
    title     =        "{Satellite Network Performance Measurements Using Simulated Multi-User Internet Traffic}",
    booktitle =        "Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Telecommunication Systems",
    year      =        1999,
    month     =        mar,
}