A measurement system to evaluate the performance of open system interconnection (OSI) transport protocol implementations is described. Several metrics are proposed to establish a quantitative characterization of layered protocol performance. Metrics specific to the OSI transport protocol are also proposed. The measurement system and metrics were applied to a multi-vendor National Computer Conference demonstration network and the results are reported.
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