Patent ID: 7457737
Filing Date: 2008-11-25
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A network simulation system, comprising: a general-purpose computing device; a computer-readable storage medium having stored and encoded thereon a computer program having program modules containing computer-excutable instructions that are excutable by the general-purpose computing device, the computer program further comprising: a modification module that accesses a network packet, comprising; an addressing module that maps an original network address of a network packet to a simulated network address, replaces the original network address of the network packet with the simulated network address when the network packet is sent, and replaces the simulated network address with the original network address when the network packet is returned; a propagation module that alters a propagation connection characteristic of the network packet; and a transmission module that removes the network packet from a queue at a send time that is determined by the propagation module and deletes the send time from the network packets when the packet is removed from the queue.