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Using Emulation and Simulation to Understand the Large-scale Behavior of the Internet

Adalsteinsson, Helgi A.; Armstrong, Robert C.; Chiang, Ken; Gentile, Ann C.; Lloyd, Levi L.; Minnich, Ronald G.; Vanderveen, Keith V.; Vanrandwyk, Jamie; Rudish, Don W.

We report on the work done in the late-start LDRD Using Emulation and Simulation to Understand the Large-Scale Behavior of the Internet. We describe the creation of a research platform that emulates many thousands of machines to be used for the study of large-scale inter-net behavior. We describe a proof-of-concept simple attack we performed in this environment. We describe the successful capture of a Storm bot and, from the study of the bot and further literature search, establish large-scale aspects we seek to understand via emulation of Storm on our research platform in possible follow-on work. Finally, we discuss possible future work.