Abstract: For large-scale and scalable network emulation requirements, multi-scale integration emulation based on lightweight virtualization and full virtualization is the trend. In order to take into account the advantages of both virtualizations and enhance the performance of network emulation, a topology mapping method (TMMI) is proposed for multi-scale integration network emulation. This method divides the network topology into lightweight virtualization mapping area and integration virtualization mapping area, and according to different mapping areas uses the optimized multi-level partitioning method to map the network topology reasonably. Experiments show that the proposed method can effectively balance the load and communication overhead between clusters. Furthermore, it can achieve fast and efficient mapping of large-scale network topology.

Key words: network emulation, multi-scale integration, virtualization, topology mapping, load balancing