Data-Driven Network Path Simulation with iBox
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Sachin Ashok, 
Shubham Tiwari, Nagarajan Natarajan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Sundararajan SellamanickamAuthors Info & Claims
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Abstract
While network simulation is widely used for evaluating network protocols and applications, ensuring realism remains a key challenge. There has been much work on simulating network mechanisms faithfully (e.g., links, buffers, etc.), but less attention on the critical task of configuring the simulator to reflect reality.
We present iBox ("Internet in a Box"), which enables data-driven network path simulation, using input/output packet traces gathered at the sender/receiver in the target network to create a model of the end-to-end behaviour of a network path. Our work builds on recent work in this direction [2, 6] and makes three contributions: (1) estimation of a lightweight non-reactive cross-traffic model, (2) estimation of a more powerful reactive cross-traffic model based on Bayesian optimization, and (3) evaluation of iBox in the context of congestion control variants in an Internet research testbed and also controlled experiments with known ground truth.
This paper represents an abridged version of [3].
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pname project website. https://aka.ms/ibox.
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S. Ashok, S. S. Duvvuri, N. Natarajan, V. N. Padmanabhan, S. Sellamanickam, and J. Gehrke. iBox: Internet in a Box. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets '20, page 23--29, New York, NY, USA, 2020.
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S. Ashok, S. Tiwari, N. Natarajan, V. N. Padmanabhan, and S. Sellamanickam. Data-Driven Network Path Simulation with iBox. Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst. (ACM SIGMETRICS/PERFORMANCE '22), 6(1), Feb 2022.
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Pantheon: The Training Ground for Internet Congestion Control Research. https://pantheon.stanford.edu/.
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ISBN:9781450391412
DOI:10.1145/3489048
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