Section: Software and Platforms

Synapse simulator in Oversim

Participants : Vincenzo Ciancaglini [contact] , Luigi Liquori.

Synapse-Oversim is an implementation of the Synapse overlay interconnection protocol in the Oversim overlay simulator. The software presents two main contributions: first of all, a fork of the original Oversim simulator has been implemented in order to support running multiple protocol modules in a single instance of Oversim, a necessary feature in order to simulate a set of heterogeneous interconnected networks. Secondly, the whole Synapse protocol has been implemented on top of Oversim, in order to allow for the efficient inter-routing of messages between heterogeneous overlays. The Synapse code has been developed in C++, by running in Oversim, its correctness and its performances can be evaluated, while then the code can be easily ported to a real-world application.