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As the rapid expansion of the Internet, novel network applications are constantly emerging accompanied by the increasingly growing of the complexity for network protocols. As a result, IP routers are becoming more and more important in today’s Internet. However, test methodology and test systems for IP routers often fall behind the state of the art. Based on the deficiency of current stand-alone test systems, this paper analyzes the necessity for distributed test architecture and introduces a new test system called Distributed Multi-point Concurrent Test System (DMC-TS) which can mirror real-world networks in the test experiments and conduct conformance testing, performance testing and interoperability testing for the routers under test. Key issues for the implementation of DMC-TS are discussed, especially on test synchronization problem. Consequently, two types of test synchronization problem are pointed out with the corresponding solutions. Some experiments are carried out to illustrate the feasibility and practicability of DMC-TS.
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Luo, H., Zeng, H. (2009). On Distributed Multi-Point Concurrent Test System and Its Implementation. In: Zhou, J. (eds) Complex Sciences. Complex 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_11
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