TARVOS - an Event-Based Simulator for Performance Analysis, Supporting MPLS, RSVP-TE, and Fast Recovery

TL;DR

TARVOS is a new event-based network simulator supporting MPLS, RSVP-TE, and fast recovery, designed for performance analysis of networks, demonstrated through a case study on VoIP link failure impact.

Contribution

This paper introduces TARVOS, a novel discrete event-based simulator supporting MPLS, RSVP-TE, and fast recovery, filling gaps in existing tools for network performance analysis.

Findings

TARVOS effectively simulates MPLS and RSVP-TE functionalities.

The case study shows the impact of link failure on VoIP in MPLS networks.

Preliminary comparison explains TARVOS's advantages over existing simulators.

Abstract

This paper presents a new discrete event-based network simulator named TARVOS - Computer Networks Simulator, being designed as part of the first Author's Masters research and will provide support to simulating MPLS architecture, several RSVP-TE protocol functionalities and fast recovery in case of link failure. The tool is used in a case study, where the impact of a link failure on a VoIP application, within an MPLS domain network, is analyzed. The paper displays a preliminary research of six already available simulators and reasons why they were not adopted as tools for the Masters research. Then, it follows to describe the basics of TARVOS implementation and exhibits the case study simulated by this new tool.