DocumentCode :
3355575
Title :
Internet routing emulation system and stress testing
Author :
Cui, Yong ; Xu, Ke ; Xu, Mingwei ; Wu, Jianping
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Volume :
2
fYear :
2003
fDate :
23 Feb.-1 March 2003
Firstpage :
1020
Abstract :
With the incessant growth of the Internet and the renewal of routing protocols, it becomes a demanding task to test the running characteristics of routing protocol implementations (RPI) in a real large-scale network. We propose a novel approach, named stress testing, to inspect the running characteristics. We compared stress testing with traditional protocol testing, and give the abstract test method. By combining Internet topology generation and RPI, we developed the Internet Routing Emulation System (IRES) as a testbed of stress testing. The architecture and some pivotal issues of IRES are presented. An example of stress testing is given, where IRES is the test bed and a CISCO2600 router is the router under test (RUT). The characteristics of OSPF routing interaction is measured and analyzed between the IRES and RUT. The computation complexity of OSPF RPI in the RUT and the upper bound of the network scale RUT supports are obtained. The experiment shows that stress testing can be widely used to inspect the stability and scalability of other RPI, e.g. RIP, BGP.
Keywords :
Internet; computational complexity; routing protocols; testing; CISCO2600 router; IRES; Internet Routing Emulation System; Internet topology; OSPF routing interaction; RPI; RUT; computation complexity; open shortest path first; protocol testing; real large-scale network; router under test; routing protocol implementations; stress testing; test bed; Computer architecture; Economic indicators; Emulation; IP networks; Internet; Large-scale systems; Network topology; Routing protocols; Stress; System testing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications, 2003. ICT 2003. 10th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7661-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICTEL.2003.1191578
Filename :
1191578
Link To Document :
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