RFC 3116 (rfc3116) - Page 2 of 127

Methodology for ATM Benchmarking

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RFC 3116            Methodology for ATM Benchmarking           June 2001


   2.13. Route Set Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   2.14. Bidirectional Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   2.15. Single Stream Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   2.16. Multi-port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   2.17. Multiple Protocols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   2.18. Multiple IP PDU Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   2.19. Testing Beyond a Single SUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   2.20. Maximum IP PDU Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   2.21. Busty Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   2.22. Trial Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   2.23. Trial Duration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   2.24. Address Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   2.25. Synchronized Payload Bit Pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   2.26. Burst Traffic Descriptors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   3. Performance Metrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   3.1. Physical Layer-SONET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   3.1.1. Pointer Movements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   3.1.1.1. Pointer Movement Propagation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   3.1.1.2. Cell Loss due to Pointer Movement. . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   3.1.1.3. IP Packet Loss due to Pointer Movement . . . . . . . . . 20
   3.1.2. Transport Overhead (TOH) Error Count . . . . . . . . . . . 21
   3.1.2.1. TOH Error Propagation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
   3.1.2.2. Cell Loss due to TOH Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
   3.1.2.3. IP Packet Loss due to TOH Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
   3.1.3. Path Overhead (POH) Error Count. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   3.1.3.1. POH Error Propagation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
   3.1.3.2. Cell Loss due to POH Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
   3.1.3.3. IP Packet Loss due to POH Error. . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
   3.2. ATM Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   3.2.1. Two-Point Cell Delay Variation (CDV) . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   3.2.1.1. Test Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   3.2.1.2. Two-point CDV/Steady Load/One VCC. . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   3.2.1.3. Two-point CDV/Steady Load/Twelve VCCs. . . . . . . . . . 28
   3.2.1.4. Two-point CDV/Steady Load/Maximum VCCs . . . . . . . . . 30
   3.2.1.5. Two-point CDV/Bursty VBR Load/One VCC. . . . . . . . . . 31
   3.2.1.6. Two-point CDV/Bursty VBR Load/Twelve VCCs. . . . . . . . 32
   3.2.1.7. Two-point CDV/Bursty VBR Load/Maximum VCCs . . . . . . . 34
   3.2.1.8. Two-point CDV/Mixed Load/Three VCC's . . . . . . . . . . 35
   3.2.1.9. Two-point CDV/Mixed Load/Twelve VCCs . . . . . . . . . . 36
   3.2.1.10. Two-point CDV/Mixed Load/Maximum VCCs . . . . . . . . . 38
   3.2.2. Cell Error Ratio (CER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
   3.2.2.1. Test Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
   3.2.2.2. CER/Steady Load/One VCC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
   3.2.2.3. CER/Steady Load/Twelve VCCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
   3.2.2.4. CER/Steady Load/Maximum VCCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
   3.2.2.5. CER/Bursty VBR Load/One VCC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
   3.2.2.6. CER/Bursty VBR Load/Twelve VCCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
   3.2.2.7. CER/Bursty VBR Load/Maximum VCCs . . . . . . . . . . . . 46



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