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Coarse-Grained Network Simulation for Wide-Area Distributed Systems Syam Gadde, Jeff Chase, Amin Vahdat Department of Computer Science Duke University Durham, NC 27708 fgadde,chase,vahdatg@ Keywords: Transfer-level simulation, Internet services, sary tool for delineating these factors and evaluating their ef- TCP/IP fect on performance. However, current state-of-the-art net- work simulators such as ns [19] are unable to scale to net- Abstract works of Internet size due to the computational requirements of fine-grain packet-level simulation and the memory needed Evaluating the performance of large-scale wide-area appli- to maintain queues at each network link. Existing simula- cations such as content distribution networks and replicated tion technologies that do scale to large-scale networks do so Internet services through simulation presents formidable only through the use of distributed computational resources, challenges. Among them is the need to balance competing retaining the detail and complexity of the original problem . needs: ensuring accuracy by choosing an appr