IPv6 Application Performance Characterization Using a Virtual/Live Testbed

Author

Green, David ; Mayo, Richard ; Reddy, Ranga

Author_Institution

SRI Int., Shrewsbury, NJ

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes development of a testbed that allows for characterization of IPv6 networks and applications. Testing applications across large, next-generation communication networks is a high cost effort, which may be prohibitive to organizations or programs on limited budgets. In such cases, it would be desirable to study the effects of communications channels using a simulated network to provide transport for application packets (in this case, using OPNET). This testbed incorporates TCP and UDP server applications and live IT equipment (routers, switches, servers, etc.) at the edges of a virtual network simulation in the center in order to study and optimize performance and responsiveness to the applications under test

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; telecommunication channels; telecommunication computing; transport protocols; IPv6 network; OPNET; TCP; UDP; application packet; communication channel; live IT equipment; router; virtual network simulation; Application software; Communication channels; Communication networks; Computer networks; Costs; File servers; Network servers; Next generation networking; Software testing; Switches; Hardware-in-the-loop; IPv6; Modeling & Simulation; Modeling and Simulation; OPNET;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302398

Filename

4086641