Practical End-to-End Performance Testing Tool for High Speed 3G-Based Networks
Abstract
High speed IP communication is a killer application
for 3rd generation (3G) mobile systems. Thus 3G network operators should
perform extensive tests to check whether expected end-to-end
performances are provided to customers under various environments. An
important objective of such tests is to check whether network nodes
fulfill requirements to durations of processing packets because a long
duration of such processing causes performance degradation. This
requires testers (persons who do tests) to precisely know how long a
packet is hold by various network nodes. Without any tool's help, this
task is time-consuming and error prone. Thus we propose a multi-point
packet header analysis tool which extracts and records packet headers
with synchronized timestamps at multiple observation points. Such
recorded packet headers enable testers to calculate such holding
durations. The notable feature of this tool is that it is implemented on
off-the shelf hardware platforms, i.e., lap-top personal computers. The
key challenges of the implementation are precise clock synchronization
without any special hardware and a sophisticated header extraction
algorithm without any drop.
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