NETGEN: A MODEL-DRIVEN TOOL FOR RAPID PROTOTYPING AND SIMULATION OF NETWORK-BASED FLIGHT TEST SYSTEMS

• Main Authors: Price, Jeremy C., Moore, Michael S.
• Other Authors: Southwest Research Institute
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 2007
• Subjects: model driven; rapid prototyping; network-centric; test; evaluation; iNet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/604528; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/604528

ITC/USA 2007 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Third Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 22-25, 2007 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada === When network-centric flight test system components are developed concurrently, it is necessary to produce relevant simulated network traffic for exercising the network devices and other processing subsystems prior to system integration. Having an accurate and repeatable pattern of simulated network traffic is extremely important for debugging and subsystem integration. The simulated network traffic must be both representative of the real system and repeatable to aid test efforts. Our solution to this problem was to develop a model-driven network traffic generator – NETGEN. Using NETGEN to resolve errors, stress test, and verify requirements, we have achieved otherwise unattainable correctness, reliability, and success in our systems.