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Abstract

Title:

Ipbench: a framework for distributed network benchmarking

Authors:

Ian Wienand and Luke Macpherson

    School of Computer Science and Engineering
    University of New South Wales
    Sydney 2052 Australia
    
    National ICT Australia, Sydney, Australia

Abstract:

Existing network benchmark tools suffer from problems such as portability, poor repeatability and inability to perform accurate testing of high-throughput networks.

We have built a distributed benchmarking tool which solves many of these problems. ipbench provides an extensible distribution framework and makes minimal demands of the device under test. We have fully implemented a latency test with many tunable parameters and demonstrated moving other tests into the framework.

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