An Investigation into Transport Protocols and Data Transport ...

Chapter 8
Systematic Tests of New-TCP
Behaviour
Implementations of the New-TCP protocols and algorithms outlined in the
Chapter 6 are now tested and evaluated under controllable network environments
using the framework outlined in Chapter 7.
The focus of this Chapter is not to determine a specific ‘winner’ or the
‘best’ New-TCP algorithm, but to understand the specific environments and
reasons why different New-TCP stacks perform better or worse.
8.1 Methodology
The testing of network protocols is often difficult due to the changing characteristics,
unpredictable loads of Internet traffic and uncontrollable determinants
of performance. As such, an initial investigation into the dynamics
of New-TCP algorithms was performed under repeatable network conditions
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