A common problem in networking research and development is the duplicate effort of writing simulation and implementation code. This duplication can be avoided through the use of fast-prototyping methodologies, which enable reusing simulation code in real prototyping and in production environments. Although this functionality is already available by using ns-3 emulation, there are still limitati...

Simulations, emulations, and test deployments play a central role in design and development of ad hoc network protocols and software. Among these three methods, emulations have gained considerable popularity. This is partly because emulations address efficiency-accuracy trade-off of simulations by incorporating real hardware or software into the synthetic environment in a controlled manner. Alt...

Recent efforts to design and develop Cloud technologies focus on defining novel methods, policies and mechanisms for efficiently managing Cloud infrastructures. One key challenge potential Cloud customers have before renting resources is to know how their services will behave in a set of resources and the costs involved when growing and shrinking their resource pool. Most of the studies in this...