Kuroyuri: A Language Processing System for Network Experiment Description

Abstract

Since the scale of experiment targets and testbeds used for network simulation and emulation are increasing, the ability of tools for network experiment is becoming more important to reduce humane efforts and boost automation. One of the tools which helps realize that goal is programming language and it is also the main focus in this study. Traditionally, small and various scripts in different languages have been used separately during the experiment. This makes the management work harder because users may have several scripts in different languages and they may forget about done or undone jobs. To make a unified and effective framework, our approach solves those shortcomings by building one script for the whole experiment based on one language from top to bottom. The language that we developed has network-oriented features that make users free from insignificant routine works in experiments such as network construction and power status control. Moreover, the language has the communication feature between nodes to support messages and arguments passing. In conclusion, the language and its processing system transform the conduct of experiments to a much simpler work — running a script.