ATM WAN performance tools, experiments, and results

Author

DaSilva, Luiz A. ; Evans, Joseph B. ; Niehaus, Douglas ; Frost, Victor S. ; Jonkman, Roelof ; Lee, Beng Ong ; Lazarou, Georgios Y.

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Technol. Centre, Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

35

Issue

8

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

118

Lastpage

125

Abstract

Practical experiments in a wide-area ATM network environment are essential to gain a better understanding of the factors affecting ATM performance. This article summarizes the main lessons learned through the authors´ practical experiences with ATM and how these can be applied to performance tuning. In order to achieve maximum performance from an ATM WAN, factors ranging from the transport protocol to the equipment used and the network conditions must be carefully taken into consideration. The authors also discuss some of the software-based throughput measurement tools available for the evaluation of high speed network performance, with particular emphasis on NetSpec

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; channel capacity; performance evaluation; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic recording; transport protocols; wide area networks; ATM WAN performance tools; ATM performance; NetSpec; equipment; high speed network performance; maximum performance; network conditions; software-based throughput measurement tools; transport protocol; wide-area ATM network environment; Asynchronous transfer mode; Contracts; High-speed networks; Operating systems; Propagation losses; Switches; TCPIP; Throughput; Transport protocols; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.606039

Filename

606039