Locating bottleneck nodes on a large wired local area network

Author

Taiwo, Ayankunle Adegbite ; Ku-Mahamud, Ku Ruhana ; Sajat, Mohd Samsu bin

Author_Institution

Comput. & Inf. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Technol. Petronas, Tronoh, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

19-20 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

When certain nodes are heavily loaded with clients more than their capacity, slow connection in accessing network resources is a common complaint on such a computer network with switches as dominant network equipment. In this study, performance simulation model was developed and validated for a federal university in Malaysia. The effect of network parameters such as the processing time on throughput and utilization of the servers and switches on the network was investigated through simulations. In conclusion, results from the simulation model suggest some bottleneck nodes on the network.

Keywords

client-server systems; computer network performance evaluation; local area networks; Malaysia; bottleneck node location; computer network; federal university; large wired local area network; network equipment; network resource access; network switches; server utilization; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Internet; Local area networks; Servers; Switches; Throughput; LAN; UUM; bottleneck; modeling; simulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

National Postgraduate Conference (NPC), 2011

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1882-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NatPC.2011.6136343

Filename

6136343