Klonet: an Easy-to-Use and Scalable Platform for Computer Networks Education
Talkat 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24) · 2024-04-16..04-18
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Klonet is a container‑based, distributed network emulation platform that uses Docker containers and veth pairs with a controller-plus-agents orchestrator and a custom virtual network embedding algorithm to pack more student labs onto fewer servers. It exposes a browser-based GUI and imaging repositories, supports L2–L7 devices including hosts switches and routers, deploys topologies faster than MLab and DeterLab, shows near‑linear aggregate throughput as student count rises, serves 800+ students across 3 universities and can scale to ~10,000 emulated routers.
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