Performance measurement of OSI class 4 transport implementations

Abstract

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.

Transport layer performance tools and measurement

“…The network management services are also used to monitor lower level measures such as collision counts, count of packets sent and received, and number of packets dropped due to buffer overrun. A passive, real-time monitor enables unobtrusive evaluation of experiment progress-indicating number of connections, number of retransmissions, protocol efficiency, and total data sent [7].…”