On designing transport networks with latency guarantees for
next-generation services
Abstract
This article presents an open-source network simulator and digital twin
focused on Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). Our tool is capable of
estimating average latency and delay percentiles between every pair of
nodes with minimal computational effort, with the ultimate goal to see
if the MAN is capable of supporting emerging services and applications
that have strict latency requirements. We show that probability bounds
like Vysochanskij–Petunin’s inequality can be used to quickly estimate
latency bounds with minimal computational effort. Theoretical results
are validated with extensive simulations leveraging the simmer package,
an open-source Discrete Event Simulator (DES) written in R, along with
igraph for visualization of networks and shortest path calculations. The
code is publicly available as open-source, and published in Github for
the research community to use and build upon.