Abstract

This paper describe our team’s experience using minimega, a network emulation system using node and network virtualization, to support evaluation of a set of networked and distributed systems for topology discovery, traffic classification and engineering in the DARPA Searchlight program [18]. We present the methodology we developed to encode network and traffic definitions into an experiment description model, and how our tools compile this model onto the underlying minimega API. We then present three cases studies which demonstrate the ability of our EDM to support experiments with diverse network topologies, diverse traffic mixes, and networks with specialized layer-2 connectivity requirements. We conclude with the overall takeaways from using minimega to support our evaluation process.

Metadata

publication

Proceedings of the 14th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop, 83-90, 2021

year

2021

publication date

2021/8/9

authors

Brian Kocoloski, Alefiya Hussain, Matthew Troglia, Calvin Ardi, Steven Cheng, Dave DeAngelis, Christopher Symonds, Michael Collins, Ryan Goodfellow, Stephen Schwab

link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3474718.3474730

resource_link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3474718.3474730

book

Proceedings of the 14th Cyber Security Experimentation and Test Workshop

pages

83-90