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A measurement‐based performance evaluation method for IP networks and its implementation

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In recent years, IP networks have become increasingly complex and the range of network applications has widened. As a result, the need for experimental evaluation of application performance has increased. We introduce a measurement‐based performance evaluation method that combines a function to generate various patterns of application traffic with one to measure end‐to‐end network performance at the application level. For our method, we also propose traffic models of various applications that can represent the characteristics of these applications, for example, the burstiness of traffic. This method has already been implemented as a benchmarking tool on UNIX operating systems.

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  1. NTT Information Sharing Platform Laboratories, 3‐9‐11 Midori‐Cho Musashino‐Shi, Tokyo, 180‐8585, Japan

    Keisuke Ishibashi

  2. NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan

    Takumi Kimura

  3. Department of Business Administration, Komazawa University, 1‐23‐1 Komazawa, Setagaya‐ku, Tokyo, 154‐8525, Japan

    Toshihisa Ozawa

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Ishibashi, K., Kimura, T. & Ozawa, T. A measurement‐based performance evaluation method for IP networks and its implementation. Telecommunication Systems 15, 203–215 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019190811729

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