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The Design of a Low-Cost Wide Area Network Simulator

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Future Multimedia Networking (FMN 2009)

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This paper presents the design of the Bottle-Net WANulator. The Bottle-Net WANulator is an inexpensive and self-contained Wide Area Network (WAN) simulator that can be used for commercial, educational, and research purposes. It inserts artificial latency and limits the bandwidth between network devices in a closed environment. The two Ethernet ports on the WANulator allow for asynchronous configuration; also, throughput statistics are displayable at the user interface, which proved as a useful tool for measuring traffic of multimedia applications. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of the WANulator hardware and software design, which can be implemented at under US$300 per unit.

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  1. Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Technology Program, Texas A&M, College Station, TX, 77843, U.S.A.

    Kevin Schmidt, Joe Cerney, Ryan Becker, Patrick Duffy, Ana Goulart & Joseph Morgan

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  1. Computing Department, Lancaster University, P.O. Box, LA1 4YR, Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Andreas Mauthe

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, 4200, Connecticut Avenue, 20008, Washington, DC, USA

    Sherali Zeadally

  3. Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

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Schmidt, K., Cerney, J., Becker, R., Duffy, P., Goulart, A., Morgan, J. (2009). The Design of a Low-Cost Wide Area Network Simulator. In: Mauthe, A., Zeadally, S., Cerqueira, E., Curado, M. (eds) Future Multimedia Networking. FMN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5630. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02472-6_19

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