[Tmrg] Test suite: Transfer time vs file size

[Sally Floyd]

Lachlan -

On Apr 18, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
> For the general scenarios, we specify one metric as the "transfer time
> per flow versus file size".
> How should we define that, given that the flows are mostly non-greedy?
> Options include:
>
> 1. Treat each "application data unit" as a single flow.  That would
> mean the Tmix would have to record the statistics for us
> 2. Treach each entire connection as a single flow.  That would seem to
> give meaningless values.
> 3. Add some artificial greedy flows and only record statistics from  
> them.
>
> My favourite option is 1.  What do others think?

That makes sense to me.

(Replying late...)

- Sally
http://www.icir.org/floyd/