Developer tools - Network Emulation Trace Tools Extension in Browser Proposal

[sudeepdi]

Description

Proposal: Network Emulation Trace Tools Extension in Browser Tools

This was presented in the WNIG Meeting on 9th March 2021. Refer to minutes of meeting .

The proposal is the following:

• Browser extension to emulate network behavior over time from trace file
• Load trace files for different wireless networks around the world
• Define a trace file specification that can be followed by all browsers
• Develop a trace collection tool to gather/create trace files
• Enable web application testing using trace based network emulation in browser

Slides presented are available here. Reference implementation with explanations are available here.

Call for Expression of Interest

If you are interested to join and engage in discussions on this topic, kindly reply to this thread.

We will consolidate and facilitate including interested members in upcoming meetings/emails to discuss the next steps, like create separate github issues for different sub-topics, start to track existing solutions, new proposals and formulate a plan on how to organize the work as a community group or taskforce with a defined scope.

@gsimcard @DanDruta @chrisn @piersoh @yoavweiss @AutomatedTester @dontcallmedom

[jsvennebring]

Sudeep, the Intel LPP team is, perhaps obvious, interested in this topic.

[dvelasquez]

I'm interested in this.

[acbegen]

I am interested in this as well, specifically with a focus on streaming applications.

[sudeepdi]

Thanks to all who expressed interest. We have now created a dedicated github repo for this topic.

Request you to share your ideas, feedback and continue the discussions there, Ref: https://github.com/w3c/network-emulation.

Closing this thread.

@acbegen @jsvennebring @dvelasquez @gsimcard @DanDruta @chrisn @piersoh @AutomatedTester @dontcallmedom