Comparative study of various traffic generator tools

Author

Srivastava, Sanjeev ; Anmulwar, Sweta ; Sapkal, A.M. ; Batra, Tushar ; Gupta, Amit Kumar ; Kumar, Vipin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun., Coll. of Eng., Pune, India

fYear

2014

fDate

6-8 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In our paper we have compared the performance of network evaluation tools (PackETH, Ostinato, and D-ITG) over 10Gbps link. The performance of these tools was evaluated in terms of bandwidth utilization over the link. In laboratory setup, two computers with Linux operating systems were connected via 10Gbps crossover cable. TCP and UDP traffic for the payload sizes varying from 64Bytes to 8950bytes was generated by tools and the corresponding throughput was measured. The performance of D-ITG in multithreaded mode is compared with Iperf. For TCP connection Ostinato measured highest bandwidth of 9Gbps while for UDP traffic packETH achieved a throughput of 9.9Gbps. Since D-ITG was not able to achieve such a high throughput we tried to run it in multithread mode for a constant payload size (<;1500 Bytes) and its performance is then compared to Iperf.

Keywords

Linux; bandwidth allocation; computer network performance evaluation; multi-threading; telecommunication computing; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; D-ITG; Linux operating systems; Ostinato; TCP traffic; UDP traffic; bandwidth utilization; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; crossover cable; multithreaded mode performance; network evaluation tool performance evaluation; packETH; payload sizes; traffic generator tools; Bandwidth; Generators; Instruction sets; Linux; Payloads; Protocols; Throughput; 10Gbps link; TCP; Throughpu; Traffic generators; UDP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering and Computational Sciences (RAECS), 2014 Recent Advances in

Conference_Location

Chandigarh

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2290-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAECS.2014.6799557

Filename

6799557