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In real networks, an experimental measure of Quality of Service parameters is fundamental in the planning process of new services over novel network infrastructures. In this work we provide an empirical performance study of a real heterogeneous wireless network with respect to delay, jitter, throughput and packet loss, in UDP and TCP environments, by using an innovative tool for network performance evaluation that we called D-ITG (Distributed Internet Traffic Generator). A comparative analysis between our practical results and an analytical model recently presented in literature is presented.
This work has been partially supported by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) in the framework of the FIRB Project ”Middleware for advanced services over large-scale, wired-wireless distributed systems” (WEB-MINDS), by Regione Campania in the framework of “Centro di Competenza Regionale ICT”, and finally by the E-NEXT IST European project.
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Pescapé, A., Vollero, L., Iannello, G., Ventre, G. (2005). Measuring Quality of Service Parameters over Heterogeneous IP Networks. In: Lorenz, P., Dini, P. (eds) Networking - ICN 2005. ICN 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3421. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31957-3_81
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