SPIMS: a tool for protocol implementation performance measurements

Author

Nordmark, Erik ; Gunningberg, Per

Author_Institution

Swedish Inst. of Comput. Sci., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

1988

fDate

10-12 Oct 1988

Firstpage

222

Lastpage

229

Abstract

The authors present SPIMS, a tool which provides an environment where it is easy to develop, specify, and execute communication measurements that can be used for `benchmarking´. The tool measures user-oriented performance parameters, such as throughput and response time, without relying on special hardware or operating system support. The measurements are specified in a protocol-independent specification language, which is presented in some detail. The usefulness of the tool is demonstrated by measurements on the ISODE OSI (FTAM) stack and the Arpa (FTP/TCP) protocols on Sun, MicroVAX, Apollo, IBM PC/RT and DS90 machines running Unix

Keywords

performance evaluation; protocols; Apollo; Arpa; DS90 machines; FTAM; FTP/TCP; IBM PC/RT; ISODE OSI; MicroVAX; SPIMS; Sun; Unix; benchmarking; protocol implementation performance measurements; response time; specification language; throughput; user-oriented performance parameters; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Computer science; Delay estimation; Local area networks; Measurement; Operating systems; Performance loss; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1988., Proceedings of the 13th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0891-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1988.10232

Filename

10232