Research Article
On Distributed Multi-Point Concurrent Test System and Its Implementation
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_11, author={Hao Luo and Huaxin Zeng}, title={On Distributed Multi-Point Concurrent Test System and Its Implementation}, proceedings={Complex Sciences. First International Conference, Complex 2009, Shanghai, China, February 23-25, 2009. Revised Papers, Part 1}, proceedings_a={COMPLEX PART 1}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={distributed concurrent test manager test agent synchronization}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_11} }- Hao Luo
Huaxin Zeng
Year: 2012
On Distributed Multi-Point Concurrent Test System and Its Implementation
COMPLEX PART 1
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02466-5_11
Abstract
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.
