Application protocols and performance benchmarks

Author

Gunningberg, Per ; Björkman, Mats ; Nordmark, Erik ; Pink, Stephen ; Sjödin, Peter ; Stromquist, J.-E.

Author_Institution

Swedish Inst. of Comput. Sci., Goeteborg, Sweden

Volume

27

Issue

6

fYear

1989

fDate

6/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

36

Abstract

The authors present results from performance measurements of application services. They have chosen widely available implementations of the file transfer protocols File Transfer Access and Management (FTAM) and FTP, and the transaction protocols Remote Operations Service Element (ROSE) and Sun´s Remote Procedure Call (SunRPC). The measurements have all been run on the same Sun 3/60 workstations over Ethernet, using protocol-independent benchmarks. A tool called SICS Protocol Implementation Measurement System (SPIMS) is used for the measurements. It is structured as a protocol, with two peer entities communicating with each other using the service of the measured protocol. The authors describe how SPIMS can be used to measure response time, throughput, and the time to open and close connections. They describe the protocols and their implementations, and draw some conclusions, and present and comment on the results.<>

Keywords

computer networks; protocols; Ethernet; FTAM; FTP; File Transfer Access and Management; ROSE; Remote Operations Service Element; SICS Protocol Implementation Measurement System; SPIMS; Sun 3/60 workstations; Sun´s Remote Procedure Call; SunRPC; application protocols; connect/disconnect time; file transfer protocols; performance benchmarks; performance measurements; protocol-independent benchmarks; response time; throughput; transaction protocols; Access protocols; Application software; Computer networks; Current measurement; Delay; High-speed networks; Signal processing; Throughput; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.29546

Filename

29546