In traffic capturing and analysis systems, it is important to measure the performance in terms of throughput, packet loss, CPU availability, latency, interrupt frequency, etc. If these metrics are the result of theoretical assumptions, then it is necessary to validate those results by running appropriate testing. This paper presents a generic test framework composed of four elements (a manager, agents, daemons and formatters). With these four elements, every phase of the validation process is automated, from test configuration to result formatting. The architecture presented in this paper has been applied to validation tests of traffic monitoring systems devoted to high speed network traffic analysis. The performance tests have been made modifying different parameters such as packet injection rate, packet length, the number of processors on the probe, analysis load or probe’s configuration mode. In spite of having this infrastructure and configuration complexity, the deployment of this framework has led to a reduction in the time needed for the test phase and the number of errors due to mistakes.
2nd Mosharaka International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing (MIC-CSP 2012)
Congress
2012 Global Congress on Communications and Signal Processing (GC-CSP 2012), 6-8 April 2012, Barcelona, Spain
Pages
24-29
Topics
Network Measurements and Testbeds Network Performance Studies
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{316CSP2012,
title={Network Architecture to Automatically Test Traffic Monitoring Systems},
author={Alberto Pineda, and Luis Zabala, and Armando Ferro},
booktitle={2012 Global Congress on Communications and Signal Processing (GC-CSP 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={24-29},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
