Balls simulator: Evaluator of a structured peer-to-peer system with integrated load balancing

Simulation is an efficient way to evaluate new peer-to-peer models. It requires two implicit properties: large scale and high dynamicity. In the context of our work that proposes a peer-to-peer structure based on partitioning a de Bruijn graph and its load balancing algorithms, we developed a simulator for evaluation purposes. This paper introduces a three- layer architecture of the simulator. This architecture allows to support simulations in two modes: centralized (where all peers are simulated on one physical machine) and decentralized (where the peers run on separate machines communicating through the underlying network).

, 2006