A New Attainable TCP Throughput Measurement Tool for Long Distance High Speed Networks

• Published in: IEEE communications letters Vol. 14; no. 10; pp. 990 - 992
• Main Authors: HAN, Young-Tae, HWANG, In-Yong, KIM, Chin-Chol, PARK, Hong-Shik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY IEEE 01-10-2010; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Access methods and protocols, osi model; Applied sciences; Bandwidth; Bandwidth measurement; Exact sciences and technology; High speed; High-speed networks; Interconnected networks; Internet; Loss measurement; Networks; Networks and services in france and abroad; Steady-state; Systems, networks and services of telecommunications; TCP (protocol); TCP congestion control; TCP throughput; Telecommunications; Telecommunications and information theory; Teleprocessing networks. Isdn; Teletraffic; Throughput; Time measurement; Transient analysis; Transmission and modulation (techniques and equipments); Utilization; Test bench; Transmission protocol; Information rate; Transmission control protocol; Unsteady state; Teletraffic; Information transmission; TCP throughput; Traffic management; TCP congestion control; Traffic control; Bandwidth measurement; Internet; Long distance transmission; Traffic congestion
• ISSN: 1089-7798; 1558-2558
• DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2010.091010.100646

TCP has a long slow start duration and low utilization in that duration, especially in long distance high speed networks. In this letter, we propose a new attainable TCP throughput measurement tool to minimize the effect of a transient state by detecting TCP states and excluding the transient state. The evaluations are conducted on both the testbed and the Internet, and the results verify that the estimated throughput by the proposed method is closer to the actual bandwidth than that of Iperf, while maintaining the same measurement time in long distance high speed networks.