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

Konstantinos A. Gotsis; Sotirios K. Goudos; John N. Sahalos

doi:10.1109/TE.2004.842897

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

Konstantinos A. Gotsis, Sotirios K. Goudos, John N. Sahalos

Department of Engineering

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	318-328
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Education
Volume	48
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2004.842897
Publication status	Published - May 2005

Keywords

Benchmarking
Computer networks
IPv6
Network performance
Network traffic
Throughput
Transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP)

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