SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EMULATION AS A SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Emulation has become a critical method for the initial phase of verification and validation processes. However, achieving interoperability between emulation systems and ensuring credibility of results currently require significant efforts. This disclosure relates to a system and method for providing an emulation as a service (EaaS) framework for communication networks. The EaaS framework provides discoverable services that are readily available on-demand and deliver a choice of applications in a flexible and adaptive manner. The EaaS framework is used for discovery, composition, execution, and management of emulation services. The EaaS framework defines user-facing capabilities (front-end) and underlying core functional infrastructure (back-end). The front end provides access to a large variety of emulation capabilities from which the user is able to select the services and track the experiences.