Performance benchmarking of signaling in ATM networks

Author

Niehaus, Douglas ; Battou, Abdella ; McFarland, Andrew ; Decina, Basil ; Dardy, Henry ; Sirkay, Vinai ; Edwards, Bill

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Kansas Univ., Lawrence, KS, USA

Volume

35

Issue

8

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

134

Lastpage

143

Abstract

The overhead associated with establishing switched virtual circuits (SVCs) in high-speed wide area ATM networks is an important performance factor in applications with client/server architectures, including the World Wide Web and low-latency applications such as command/control and modeling/simulation. This article quantifies this overhead by describing a benchmarking framework implemented in a reliable, portable, and easily expandable toolset designed to conduct measurements of well-defined parameters and performance metrics on equipment that is either isolated or connected to a live network. The usefulness of this toolset is then demonstrated in a test suite applied to assess call rates and connection establishment latency of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint ATM connections in the MAGIC, ATDnet, and AAI WANs, on the campus ATM LAN at NRL, and on individual switches in our laboratories

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; internetworking; local area networks; performance evaluation; telecommunication equipment testing; telecommunication signalling; wide area networks; AAI WAN; ATDnet; ATM network signaling; MAGIC; World Wide Web; call rates; campus ATM LAN; client/server architectures; command/control; connection establishment latency; expandable toolset; high speed wide area ATM networks; low latency applications; measurements; modeling/simulation; overhead; performance benchmarking; performance metrics; point to multipoint ATM connections; point to point ATM connections; portable toolset; reliable toolset; switched virtual circuits; test suite; Asynchronous transfer mode; Benchmark testing; Circuit simulation; Delay; Measurement; Network servers; Service oriented architecture; Switching circuits; Web server; Web sites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.606041

Filename

606041