TF-TANT: diffserv testing

TF-TANT: Differentiated Services Testing

THE FOLLOW-UP UP DIFFSERV-RELATED EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES
IS CARRIED OUT BY THE "Support of Delay and Jitter Requirements" working group
of THE NEW TASK FORCE TF-NFN

THE NEW PAGE ON THE EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES IS AVAILABLE HERE

Previous task force tf-tant:
This page reports on the diffserv test activities carried out by the tf-tant task force.

DIFFSERV AGENDA DUBLIN MEETING

Morning:

Report on documents (deliverables, TNC'2000, IWQoS, Qofis)
Revision of network set-up
Recent test results:
- DETAILED, COMPLETE COMPARISON OF WFQ AND PQ
- TEST OF CPU UTILIZATION AS A FUNCTION OF TRAFFIC RATE
- IMPACT OF CAR ON ROUTER PERFORMANCE
- IMPACT OF ACLS ON ROUTER PERFORMANCE
- ED demo set-up
- Larry's update on QOS development at CISCO
- BB (Phil Chimento)

Afternoon:

Univeristy of Twente: results on aggregation, PQ and WFQ
slides, Mirjana Zafirovic
WRED testing (A.Pinizzotto)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Mailing list archive
Test PROGRAMME
ROADMAP (Dic 02, 1999)
RESULTS (overview):
- Articles and Reports:
  - End-To-End Performance Analysis with Traffic Aggregation, T.Ferrari
    TNC'2000, Lisbon May 23 2000
    Word, Postscript
  - Priority Queuing Applied to Expedited Forwarding: a Measurement-Based Analysis, T. Ferrari, G. Pau, C. Raffaelli, Mar 2000
    QofIS'2000, in print
    PDF, Postscript, Word (Office 2000 recommended)
  - A Measurement-based Analysis of Expedited Forwarding PHB Mechanisms, T. Ferrari, P. Chimento, Feb 2000,
    Proceedings of IWQoS 2000, Pittsburgh June 2000
    Word, Postscript
  - Report Phase 2 (v. 1.1, May 15 2000, from Sep 99 to May 2000):
    Word, Postscript
  - Report Phase 1 (v. 1.6, Nov 03 1999, from Jun 99 to Sep 99):
    Word, Postscript
- Slides:
  - Quality of Service in Packet Networks;
    Aristote seminar, Paris Jun 2000 (Presentation)
  - A Measurement-based Analysis of Expedited Forwarding PHB Mechanisms,
    IWQOS 2000, Pittsburgh Jun 2000 (Presentation)
  - End-To-End Performance Analysis with Traffic Aggregation;
    TNC'2000, Lisbon May 23 2000 (PowerPoint)
  - Delay and Delay Variation Measurements in a Differentiated Services Test Network;
    First Joint Internet2/DOE QoS Workshop, Houston TX, Feb 09 2000 (PowerPoint slides and abstract)
  - Diffserv Deployment in the Wide Area: Network Design and Testing;
    QoS Summit, Paris, Nov 17, 1999 (PowerPoint)
  - Diffserv testing in the wide area;
    DECIDES BOF, Washington DC, Nov 8 1999 (PowerPoint)
  - Diffserv testing: report;
    QPC Workshop, Frankfurt Oct 1 1999 (PowerPoint)

THE NETWORK

Network Topology Aug 2000
- Old: Network Topology Jan 2000
Network STATUS: status of overlay ATM connections deploying the MBS of Dante
ADDRESSING AND ROUTING
CONFIGURATIONS of remote test sites
END-SYSTEMS

TEST RESULTS IN DETAIL

CISCO test activities
IBM test activities
QoS MEASUREMENT RESULTS NEW RESULTS
SmartBits 200 (Netcom Systems):
- SmartApplications deployment and configuration
- SmartWindows deployment and configuration

SERVICES

Virtual Leased Line (VLL) and one-to-many VLL (1-nVLL) service

POLICY RELATED ISSUES
User scenarios for networking policy control

REFERENCES

Performance Comparison of Different Class-and-Drop Treatment of Data and Acknowledgements in Diffserv IP Networks, S.Kohler, U.Schafer (gzipped postscript)
RED in a Different Light, V.Jacobson, K.Nichols, K.Poduri (pdf)
Scalable QoS Provision Through Buffer Management, R.Guerin, S.Karnat, V.Peris, R.Rajan (gzipperd postscript)
TCP mechanisms for Diffserv Architecture, W.Fang (gzipped postscript)
Test of CISCO's IP QoS Implementation considering Differentiated Services, R. Stoy, J.Jaehnert (word)
The Cost of QoS Support in Edge Devices: An Experimental Study, R.Guerin, L.Li, S.Nadas, P.Pan, V.Peris (gzipperd postscript)
The Effects of Asymmetry on TCP Performance, H.Balakrishnan, V.N.Padmanabhan, R.H.Katz (gzipped postscript)

More references are avilable on the test programme page.

Maintained by: Tiziana Ferrari, Aug 22 2000