mwang_pay (11/15/82)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO SEMINAR ACTIVITIES SYSTEMS SEMINAR - Friday, November 26, 1982. Dr. J.A. Barchanski of Universite de Montreal will speak on "On Evaluation of Transport Protocol Perfor- mance in the Context of an Interuniversity Computer". TIME: 3:30 PM ROOM: M&C 5158 ABSTRACT In an introduction, the configuration, the components and the logical architecture of an interuniversity computer network will be presented. The transport protocol agreed for implementation in the network will be reviewed shortly, followed by an explonation of its performance monitoring. As a sequel a set of performance parameters proposed for evaluation of the protocol implementations will be presented. Then the relationship between these parameters and the perfor- mance parameters of the lower layers protocols imple- mented in the network will be discussed. In the fol- lowing, software, hardware and hybrid measurement techniques will be characterized. The tools of the selected for the network software techniques will be reviewed and their applicability for the purposes in point analysed. Finally, it will be shown how to evaluate practically some of the performance parame- ters. November 15, 1982