This report can be seen as a plan for the performance experiments to be conducted on the AAI network. As a result of these experiments, we expect to quantify the characteristics of the AAI as well as identify potential bottlenecks that may impact network performance. As a final result, in the future we will suggest admission, flow and congestion control techniques that may be used to improve this performance.
The scope of this report is to identify the scenarios (topologies, duration, etc.) in which the experiments will be performed, as well as to discuss the results we expect to observe.
The report starts by re-introducing all the experiment topologies (slightly modified from [2]). In the following sections, metrics for each network layer (Application, TCP, AAL5, ATM) are discussed. Finally, we present preliminary results for the experiments which have already been performed and preview future research areas.