A test lab for the performance analysis of TCP over ethernet LAN on windows operating system

A test laboratory for the performance analysis of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the teaching of its basic concepts is proposed. The laboratory environment is a small Ethernet local area network (LAN) with PCs running different versions of the Windows operating system (95/98/NT/2000). T...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE transactions on education 2005-05, Vol.48 (2), p.318-328
Hauptverfasser:	Gotsis, K.A., Goudos, S.K., Sahalos, J.N.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Benchmarking Communication engineering education Communication system traffic Computer aided instruction computer networks Computer science education Education Ethernet IP (Internet Protocol) IPv6 Local area networks network performance network traffic Operating systems Student experiments TCP (protocol) Test facilities throughput Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Transport protocols Windows (computer programs)
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Zusammenfassung:	A test laboratory for the performance analysis of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the teaching of its basic concepts is proposed. The laboratory environment is a small Ethernet local area network (LAN) with PCs running different versions of the Windows operating system (95/98/NT/2000). To support the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for Windows and to improve flexibility, the Netperf TCP software tool has been modified. Based on the modified Netperf and a protocol analyzer, students perform traffic measurements on a real network. Various aspects of the Microsoft TCP implementation for Windows are discovered and clearly explained. The IPv6 for Windows 2000 is also examined, and comparisons with IPv4 are made.
ISSN:	0018-9359 1557-9638
DOI:	10.1109/TE.2004.842897