TY - GEN
T1 - Measurement of packet processing time of an Internet host using asynchronous packet capture at the data-link layer
AU - Salehin, Khondaker M.
AU - Rojas-Cessa, Roberto
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - As transmission speeds increase faster than processing speeds, the packet processing time (PPT) of a host (i.e., workstation) is becoming more significant in the measurement of different network parameters, in which packet processing by the host is involved. The PPT of a host is the time elapsed between the arrival of a packet at the data-link layer and the time the packet is processed at the application layer of the TCP/IP protocol stack (RFCs 2679 and 2681). In this paper, we propose a methodology to measure the PPT of a host using Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet and a specialized packet-capture card that does not require synchronization between the host under test and the packet-capture card. We tested the proposed methodology on two hosts with different specifications. The experimental results show that the proposed methodology consistently measures PPT.
AB - As transmission speeds increase faster than processing speeds, the packet processing time (PPT) of a host (i.e., workstation) is becoming more significant in the measurement of different network parameters, in which packet processing by the host is involved. The PPT of a host is the time elapsed between the arrival of a packet at the data-link layer and the time the packet is processed at the application layer of the TCP/IP protocol stack (RFCs 2679 and 2681). In this paper, we propose a methodology to measure the PPT of a host using Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet and a specialized packet-capture card that does not require synchronization between the host under test and the packet-capture card. We tested the proposed methodology on two hosts with different specifications. The experimental results show that the proposed methodology consistently measures PPT.
KW - Active measurement
KW - clock synchronization
KW - local area network
KW - packet processing time
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2013.6654918
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2013.6654918
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891369084
SN - 9781467331227
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 2550
EP - 2554
BT - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013
Y2 - 9 June 2013 through 13 June 2013
ER -