TCP/IP measured performance over an ethernet local network

Abstract

Both a reliable transfer and a datagram transmission protocol are provided at the transport level of the Internet protocol suite. In this paper, an evaluation of the performance of these different protocols in the presence of background load is presented. The experimental analysis was carried out on an Ethernet Local Area Network with PC‐type workstations. The loading conditions were established by means of an artificial traffic generator. A reproducible experimental environment and a methodology to achieve accuracy in measurements were developed.