DMNS: A Framework to Dynamically Monitor Simulated Network

With rapid development of network simulation technology, monitoring system has become an essential tool for the researching and testing of network space activities. However, the current monitoring technologies of simulated networks cannot satisfy the requirements in terms of flexibility and efficiency. This paper proposes a framework called DMNS to dynamically monitor simulated network. With DMNS, users are able to customize the monitored objects and monitoring actions to meet the requirements of flexibility. In addition, the administrators could dynamically change the monitoring rules for saving resources based on callback mechanism. DMNS also considers the requirements of large-scale distributed simulation. Specifically, it leverages message oriented middleware to achieve efficient monitoring message information transmission to guarantee the robustness of the monitoring system. We implement a prototype of DMNS in a network range system and demonstrate the effectiveness by a case study.