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Fault management systems are complex applications. Early evaluation of prototypes as well as thorough testing and performance evaluation of the final versions before their deployment are a must.
The present paper presents a simulator of plesiochronous transmission networks, SPRINTER, which has been used to generate test patterns for alarm correlation systems, working on the same kind of networks.
Thanks to the choice of a versatile simulation environment, particularly suited for distributed systems, YES, the implementation of SPRINTER turned out to be elegant and easily extensible.
The approach has been applied to the validation of the alarm correlator SINERGIA; however, the alarm streams generated by SPRINTER could be used to test other correlators working on the same kind of networks.
Furthermore, the proposed simulation approach seems generalizable to other network management applications and areas.
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Manione, R., Montanari, F. (1995). Validation and Extension of Fault Management Applications through Environment Simulation. In: Sethi, A.S., Raynaud, Y., Faure-Vincent, F. (eds) Integrated Network Management IV. IM 1995. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34890-2_21
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