Abstract

Modeling representative topological structures for experimentation has proved to be a challenging task. Our personal experience suggests most experimenters evaluate networking and cyber security systems with small scale topologies, significantly limiting the scientific process and rigor in their experiments. In this paper, we first survey the current topology tools and discuss how the affordances and constraints of these tools influence how experimenters design their investigations. We then present a topology manager that integrates a suite of tools for topology generation, composition, and validation, with an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. These tools provide a collaborative environment where experiments can document, share, and reuse topologies thus building on their work and the work of other researchers. We demonstrate how the tools can be used to develop two non-trivial networking topological structures: an Internet2 topology and the combined Italian power grid and communication network topology.

Metadata

publication

Technical Report-684, 2012

year

2012

publication date

2012/8

authors

Alefiya Hussain, Jennifer Chen

link

https://deter-project.org/sites/default/files/photos/tech%20rprt_deter_montage%20topology%20mgr_isi-tr-684_20120817.pdf

resource_link

https://deter-project.org/sites/default/files/photos/tech%20rprt_deter_montage%20topology%20mgr_isi-tr-684_20120817.pdf

publisher

Technical Report-684