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ipbench — A Framework for Distributed Network Benchmarking

by Ian Wienand and Luke Macpherson

ABSTRACT

Existing network benchmark tools suffer from problems such asportability, poor repeatability and inability to perform accuratetesting of high-throughput networks.

We have built a distributed benchmarking tool which solves many of these problems.  ipbench provides an extensible distribution framework and makes minimal demands of the device under test.  We have fully implemented a latency test with many tunable parameters and demonstrated moving other tests into the framework.

Ian Wienand
Gelato@UNSW, University of NSW

Luke Macpherson
School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of NSW

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