Cloud computing allows the deployment and delivery of application services for users
worldwide. Software as a Service providers with limited upfront budget can take advantage …

The network emulation testbed is a promising research area because it provides a platform
to fulfill testing requirements, creating emulated environments for conducting experiments …

In the field of large-scale distributed systems, experimentation is particularly difficult. The
studied systems are complex, often nondeterministic and unreliable, software is plagued …

Network simulators have gained an increased importance in the research community to an
extent that approximately 11% of the research papers that appeared in the proceedings of …

Many different experimentation environments address complementary aspects of network
protocol evaluation, but because of their disparities and complexities it is often hard to use …

To assess the feasibility and potential for deployment of new networking paradigms such as
ICN, being able to carry out large scale experimentation and tests in real operational …

To make experiments more convenient and then quickly deploy theoretical research results
to practical systems, eg, porting multipath transmission control protocol (MPTCP) to Android …

Whilst dealing with topics that are more and more influenced by physical properties of the
underlying media, the networking community still lacks a culture of rigorous result …

The constantly increasing diversity of the infrastructure used to deliver Internet services to
the end user has created a demand for experimental network facilities featuring …

PlanetLab testbed is widely used to evaluate protocols and applications under realistic
Internet conditions, but this realism comes at the cost of uncontrolled topology and traffic …