BrowsEm

Installing

• Prerequisites: Linux and root shell
• Install nix with ./install.sh

Running

• Enter nix devshell with nix develop
• Run the tool with task

Tasks

Setup & Data Collection

• task clean - Clean generated data
• task jupyter-lab - Run Jupyter Lab for analysis
• task download-top-websites - Download top websites
• task top-n-websites - Limit to top N websites
• task scrape - Scrape websites and collect data
• task load-model - Generate load model from scraped data
• task scrape-stats - Generate statistics on scraped data

Emulation

• task build-bins - Build necessary binaries for emulation
• task emulate - Run website loading emulation based on models

Example:

# Run emulation with custom model and output file
task emulate MODEL_PATH=data/example/model.json OUTPUT_FILE=results.csv NUM_ITERATIONS=5

Configuration variables for emulation:

• MODEL_PATH: Path to the IML model file (required)
• OUTPUT_FILE: Path to save benchmark results (default: benchmark_results.csv)
• NUM_ITERATIONS: Number of benchmark iterations (default: 10)
• BASE_PORT: Base port number for servers (default: 8080)

Nix

Use nix for emulation by running:

nix develop

and executing the commands within this shell. This ensures that all dependencies are setup correctly.