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Under this central theme, our research work has two strongly correlated streams. First, to analyze large-scale networked systems (e.g., smart grid communication networks) with high fidelity, it is necessary for a testing system to offer both effective emulation (to represent critical software execution) and realistic simulation (to model background computation and communication). We have developed a network testbed using both parallel simulation and virtual- machine-based, virtual-time-embedded emulation to provide both functional and temporal fidelity for running large-scale networking experiments, so that technologies can be appropriately evaluated with modeling and simulation methodologies as well as with real software/hardware testing before they are integrated into the grid. 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