Title :
Transport measurements over an Ethernet LAN
Author :
Bimbo, Alberto Del ; Vicario, Enrico
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento Sistemi e Inf., Firenze Univ., Italy
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;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TCOMM.1994.582827
