Performance analysis in high-speed wide area IP-over-ATM network: top-to-bottom end-to-end monitoring

Author

Tierney, Brian L. ; Johnston, William E. ; Lee, Jason R. ; Hoo, Gary

Author_Institution

Imaging & Distributed Comput. Group, Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA, USA

Volume

10

Issue

3

fYear

1996

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

39

Abstract

We describe an approach to the analysis of the performance of distributed applications in high-speed wide area networks. The approach is designed to identify all of the issues that impact performance, and isolate the causes due to the related hardware and software components. We also describe the use of a distributed parallel data server as a network load generator that can be used in conjunction with this approach to probe various aspects of high-speed distributed systems from top to bottom of the protocol stack and from end to end in the network. To demonstrate the utility of this approach we present the analysis of a TCP-over-ATM problem that was uncovered while developing this methodology. This work was done in conjunction with the ARPA-funded MAGIC gigabit testbed

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; computerised monitoring; internetworking; monitoring; network servers; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; switching networks; transport protocols; wide area networks; MAGIC gigabit testbed; TCP-over-ATM; WAN IP-over-ATM network; distributed applications; distributed parallel data server; hardware components; high-speed distributed systems; high-speed wide area networks; network load generator; network monitoring; parallel system architecture; performance analysis; protocol stack; software components; Asynchronous transfer mode; Intelligent networks; Monitoring; Network servers; Performance analysis; Protocols; Switches; Testing; Throughput; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/65.494559

Filename

494559