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Network services represent a key part of INSPIRE. They shall be available to the public and accessible via the Internet. The advent of prototypes using OGC WMS on PDA’s requires to test performance of selected servers and its suitability for using such service on PDA platform. The paper proposes a way how to test and measure the availability of network view services (WMS) for end users. Map servers of two main providers of Czech spatial network services according INSPIRE (CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency, and COSMC, Czech Office for Surveying, Mapping and Cadastre) has been tested using performance testing. The testing helps to understand how the system will handle the load caused by many concurrent users. Any provider is able to test a latency of application, but for end users it is important to measure the overall latency (the response time) and also other characteristics like error occurrence, availability and performance. The response time, error occurrence, availability and performance were measured during two months of repeated access using same scenarios and different number of concurrent virtual users. Better performance and benchmarking were obtained testing of COSMC map services, where the average response time is bellow 1 s.
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Horák, J., Ardielli, J., Růžička, J. (2011). Performance Testing of Web Map Services. In: Nguyen, N.T., Trawiński, B., Jung, J.J. (eds) New Challenges for Intelligent Information and Database Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 351. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19953-0_26
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