Section: Software

ECOFEN simulation framework

Participants : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Laurent Lefevre.

The problem when evaluating new network architectures and protocols is that large testbed platforms are really expensive and difficult to manage. That is why we have designed ECOFEN whose user's entries are the network topology and traffic. Based on configurable measurements of different network component (routers, switches, NICs, etc.), it provides the power consumption of the overall network including the end-hosts as well as the power consumption of each equipment over time. The ECOFEN simulator supports green network leverages such as Adaptive Link Rate and on/off. The aim of ECOFEN is to compute and expose the energy consumed by a network under a given traffic. Firstly based on NS2 and now developed on NS3, this simulator has been made in collaboration with Dino Lopez-Pacheco [29] .