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On designing transport networks with latency guarantees for next-generation services
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  • Nataliia Koneva,
  • Farhad Arpanaei,
  • Alfonso Sánchez-Macián,
  • Jose Alberto Hernández
Nataliia Koneva
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Departamento de Ingenieria Telematica

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Farhad Arpanaei
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Departamento de Ingenieria Telematica
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Alfonso Sánchez-Macián
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Departamento de Ingenieria Telematica
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Jose Alberto Hernández
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Departamento de Ingenieria Telematica
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Abstract

This article presents an open-source network simulator and digital twin focused on Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). Our tool is capable of estimating average latency and delay percentiles between every pair of nodes with minimal computational effort, with the ultimate goal to see if the MAN is capable of supporting emerging services and applications that have strict latency requirements. We show that probability bounds like Vysochanskij–Petunin’s inequality can be used to quickly estimate latency bounds with minimal computational effort. Theoretical results are validated with extensive simulations leveraging the simmer package, an open-source Discrete Event Simulator (DES) written in R, along with igraph for visualization of networks and shortest path calculations. The code is publicly available as open-source, and published in Github for the research community to use and build upon.
22 Apr 2024Submitted to Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
23 Apr 2024Submission Checks Completed
23 Apr 2024Assigned to Editor
23 Apr 2024Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
30 Jul 2024Reviewer(s) Assigned