Abstract—There are a great variety of network elements in use at built systems. These network elements are uniquely configured and lively working under critical and non-critical jobs. In order to maintain the systems, unexpected situations must be handled as soon as possible, especially for the systems which are serving to the customers. However, it is not very easy to reproduce the same occurred incidents because of being ought to provide the same configuration or some of the access restrictions. Log based network element simulator is providing a real simulation of a network element behavior at any previous time depending on the log files. Assume that there is a product that is provided to a customer and it generated an error. When the customer reports the issue, just demanding the log file will be enough, and then the simulator will parse the log file and start to act like the NE depending on the request and response information where the situation occurred. The logs are kept when the error was occurred so the behavior will be the same with that specific time interval of the related NE. 
 

Index Terms—logging, network element, simulation, simulator, communications, network access

Cite: Bahadır Taşdemir, İzzet Çelik, Ferit Ünlü, Caner Reşber, and Ömer Sönmez, "Network Element Simulation Based on Log Files," International Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 192-197, June 2016. doi: 10.18178/ijsps.4.3.192-197