Experimental Evaluation of TCP and ICMP in Network Measurement

Network measurement is an important approach to understand network behaviors, which has been widely studied. Both Transfer Control Protocol （TCP） and Interact Control Messages Protocol （ICMP） are applied in network measurement, while investigating the differences between the measured results of these two protocols is an important topic that has been less investigated. In this paper, to compare the differences between TCP and ICMP when they are used in measuring host connectivity, RTT, and packet loss rate, two groups of comparison programs have been designed, and after careful evaluation of the program parameters, a lot of comparison experiments are executed on the Internet. The experimental results show that, there are significant differences between the host connectivity measured using TCP or ICMP; in general, the accuracy of connectivity measured using TCP is 20%- 30% higher than that measured using ICMP. The case of RTT and packet loss rate is complicated, which are related to path loads and destination host loads. While commonly, the RTF and packet loss rate＂ measured using TCP or ICMP are very close. According to the experimental results, some advices are also given on protocol selection for conducting accurate connectivity, RTF and packet loss rate measurements.     

基于NS2的RPR带宽分配算法参数确定方法

RPR(resiliencepacketring)是一种MAC层的环网络协议,具有全双工,空间可重用,自我护的特点,IEEE正在致力于RPR标准化。带宽分配算法是整个协议(RPRDraft1.0)讨论的重点之一,在分析了RPRDraft1.0中定义的参数Lpcoef和Rampcoef对带宽分配算法效率的影响之后,分别用25种不同的关键参数配置NS2RPR模拟器,模拟经典的两种背景压力情景,综合考虑收敛时间和振荡波形可以选出最优的关键参数组合。实验结果发现Lpcoef=32且Rampcoef=64在收敛时间与振荡方面都优于草案中建议的Lpcoef=64且Rampcoef=64。