Large-scale Network Topology Generation for Emulation Environment

Network emulation environment is great importance to the research of network protocols, applications and security mechanism. Large-scale network topology generation is one of key technologies to construct network emulation environment. In this paper, a new large-scale network topology generation framework called LSNTGF is proposed, which divides the network topology into three hierarchies: AS, router and terminal node. It contains the assignment mechanism to bandwidth of each link and IP address of each node. The framework is evaluate by implementation, and the result illustrate it is efficient to network emulation environment for network protocols and security research.