Integration of a GIST implementation into OMNeT++

Roland  Bless; Martin  Röhricht

Research Article

Integration of a GIST implementation into OMNeT++

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8698,
    author={Roland  Bless and Martin  R\o{}hricht},
    title={Integration of a GIST implementation into OMNeT++},
    proceedings={3rd International Workshop on OMNeT++},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={OMNET++},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={OMNeT++ Simulation NSIS GIST},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8698}
}

Roland Bless
Martin Röhricht
Year: 2010
Integration of a GIST implementation into OMNeT++
OMNET++
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8698

Roland Bless¹^,*, Martin Röhricht¹^,*

1: Institute of Telematics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Zirkel 2, D–76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.

*Contact email: bless@kit.edu, roehricht@kit.edu

Abstract

The General Internet Signaling Transport (GIST) protocol was specified by the IETF in order to provide a generic transport protocol for signaling messages. A group at the Institute of Telematics implemented the GIST protocol and evaluated it already in smaller testbed setups. An evaluation of GIST in large-scale scenarios can, however, only be accomplished by using a simulation framework. In this paper we describe how the existing Linux-based and multi-threaded NSIS-ka implementation was ported to the OMNeT++ simulation framework. First we provide an analysis of the different design principles used and then describe related challenges. Then we describe a methodology for integrating an existing real protocol implementation into OMNeT++. The feasibility of the chosen approach is finally demonstrated by a set of evaluations.

Keywords: OMNeT++ Simulation NSIS GIST

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8698