%T Assessing Application Performance in Degraded Network Environments: an FPGA\-based Approach
%A  Mihai Ivanovici,  Razvan Beuran,  Neil Davies
%E  Jan F. Broenink,  Herman Roebbers,  Johan P. E. Sunter, Peter H. Welch,  David C. Wood
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2005
%X Network emulation is a technique that allows
   real\-application performance assessment under controllable
   and reproducible conditions. We designed and implemented a
   hardware network emulator on an FPGA\-based custom\-design
   PCI platform. Implementation was facilitated by the use of
   the Handel\-C programming language, that allows rapid
   development and fast translation into hardware and has
   specific constructs for developing systems with concurrent
   processes. We report on tests performed with web\-browsing
   applications.