Performance evaluation of end-to-end path capacity measurement tools in a controlled environment

Authors:
Wenwei Li;Bin Zeng;Dafang Zhang;Jinmin Yang
Affiliations:
School of Software, Hunan University, Changsha, China;College of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, Changsha, China;School of Software, Hunan University, Changsha, China;School of Software, Hunan University, Changsha, China
Venue:
GPC'08 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Advances in grid and pervasive computing
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this paper we present results of a series of end-to-end path capacity measurement experiments conducted on a fully controllable IP network built in the lab. We test and evaluate several typical path capacity measurement tools: pathchar, clink, and pathrate. The cross traffic is generated in a reproducible manner, and has similar spatial and temporal characteristics of real Internet traffics. We evaluate the measurement error and other operational characteristics of the tools and analyze factors impacting their performance. Such work is useful for tools selection and further improvement of capacity measurement tools.