Transport measurements over an Ethernet LAN

Author

Bimbo, Alberto Del ; Vicario, Enrico

Author_Institution

Dipartimento Sistemi e Inf., Firenze Univ., Italy

Volume

42

Issue

234

fYear

1994

Firstpage

1486

Lastpage

1489

Abstract

The performance evaluation of transport protocols is a relevant step for designing efficient distributed applications. This analysis can be performed either with an unloaded medium or in the presence of background load. In this latter case, the effects of the interaction with other users are made evident, but remarkable difficulties exist to obtain a reproducible network load and to achieve accuracy in measurements. In this paper, performance measurements in the presence of background load are presented for TCP and UDP in the Internet family. And SPP and IDP in the Xerox Network System family. Experiments were carried out over an Ethernet LAN with MS-DOS AT-class stations

Keywords

local area networks; performance evaluation; protocols; Ethernet LAN; IDP; MS-DOS AT-class stations; SPP; TCP; UDP; Xerox Network System; background load; distributed applications; experiments; performance evaluation; performance measurements; transport measurements; transport protocols; unloaded medium; Degradation; Delay; Ethernet networks; IP networks; Local area networks; Measurement; Operating systems; Performance analysis; Throughput; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.1994.582827

Filename

582827