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 |
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| Pages (from-to) | 318-328 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Education |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2005 |
Keywords
- Benchmarking
- Computer networks
- IPv6
- Network performance
- Network traffic
- Throughput
- Transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP)