Title : 
RUBEN: A Router emUlator for green BackbonE Networks
         
        
            Author : 
Chiaraviglio, Luca ; Cianfrani, Antonio ; Gregoris, Gabriele ; Listanti, Marco ; Mignano, Luigi ; Polverini, Marco
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
DIET Dept., Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Rome, Italy
         
        
        
            fDate : 
April 26 2015-May 1 2015
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We detail the implementation of RUBEN, a scalable emulator based on software routers which implements and evaluate energy-aware algorithms in backbone networks. Our solution adopts virtualization techniques to reproduce the behavior of an entire backbone network on a single machine. Each virtual machine is a router implementing an energy-aware algorithm. Moreover, RUBEN is tailored to the measurements of transients behaviors, i.e., the increase in the RTT and in the packet loss as a consequence of routing instabilities occurring when the set of devices in sleep mode is reconfigured.
         
        
            Keywords : 
green computing; routing protocols; virtual machines; virtualisation; RUBEN; TCP/IP based routing services; energy-aware algorithm evaluation; energy-aware algorithm implementation; packet loss; router emulator-for-green backbone networks; routing instabilities; scalable emulator; sleep mode; software routers; transient behavior; virtual machine; virtualization techniques; Algorithm design and analysis; Green products; Routing; Software algorithms; Switches; Transient analysis; Virtual machining;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2015 IEEE Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Hong Kong
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/INFCOMW.2015.7179318