A test lab for the performance analysis of TCP over ethernet LAN on windows operating system

Author

Gotsis, Konstantinos A. ; Goudos, Sotirios K. ; Sahalos, John N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece

Volume

48

Issue

2

fYear

2005

fDate

5/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

318

Lastpage

328

Abstract

A test laboratory for the performance analysis of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the teaching of its basic concepts is proposed. The laboratory environment is a small Ethernet local area network (LAN) with PCs running different versions of the Windows operating system (95/98/NT/2000). To support the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for Windows and to improve flexibility, the Netperf TCP software tool has been modified. Based on the modified Netperf and a protocol analyzer, students perform traffic measurements on a real network. Various aspects of the Microsoft TCP implementation for Windows are discovered and clearly explained. The IPv6 for Windows 2000 is also examined, and comparisons with IPv4 are made.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; local area networks; operating systems (computers); student experiments; telecommunication engineering education; telecommunication traffic; test facilities; transport protocols; Ethernet; IPv6; LAN; Netperf TCP software tool; TCP; Windows operating system; internet protocol version 6; local area network; teaching; traffic measurement; transmission control protocol; Education; Ethernet networks; Internet; Laboratories; Local area networks; Operating systems; Performance analysis; Personal communication networks; Protocols; System testing; Benchmarking; IPv6; Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP); computer networks; network performance; network traffic; throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TE.2004.842897

Filename

1427883