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