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v22 v23 1 = Exercise 2: Measuring Performance of a !MobilityFirst Router=1 == Exercise 2: Measuring Performance of a !MobilityFirst Router == 2 2 3 3 [[TOC(Tutorials/oMF*, depth=2)]] 4 4 5 5 6 == !Design/Setup==7 8 === Objective===6 === !Design/Setup === 7 8 ==== Objective ==== 9 9 10 10 In this exercise, we will try to drive synthetic traffic through the router and measure key performance characteristics such as throughput and forwarding latency. Since !MobilityFirst presents a hop-by-hop block data transport, we can vary the unit size of the data block and observe it's impact on the performance. We will also try to visualize the performance results using OMF's result service by installing an OML-enabled monitor on the routers. 11 11 12 === Pre-requisites===12 ==== Pre-requisites ==== 13 13 14 14 * Experimenters are expected to have basic networking knowledge and familiarity with Linux OS and some of its tools (command line tools, ssh, etc.). … … 16 16 * Some familiarity with the !MobilityFirst terminology. 17 17 18 === Deploy the Network===18 ==== Deploy the Network ==== 19 19 20 20 This tutorial assumes that a 4 nodes topology has been already established in one of the Orbit sandboxes or the grid: … … 66 66 your nodes have been imaged correctly. 67 67 68 === Deploy Network===68 ==== Deploy Network ==== 69 69 70 70 Software and experiment control in the ORBIT testbed can be automated greatly using the OMF framework. An OMF control script is written in Ruby and allows the experimenter to specify the set of nodes, their network configuration, to specify software components and arguments, and to control their execution on one or more nodes. We will use an OMF script to bring up 4 ORBIT nodes to host our topology, with the corresponding software components. … … 72 72 We will first introduce the main details of the scripts that will be run and then we will step to the execution process itself. 73 73 74 ==== Software Component Specification====74 ===== Software Component Specification ===== 75 75 76 76 The following snippet shows the specification of the !MobilityFirst components along with the required arguments. A typical application will have at least a brief description, a path for the associated binary to execute and a list of properties that correspond to the parameters that will be passed once starting the executable. … … 127 127 * Most of the client settings are located in a configuration file pre-loaded on the ORBIT image in the folder ''/usr/local/src/mobilityfirst/eval/orbit/conf/''. 128 128 129 ==== Setting up the Software Node Groups====129 ===== Setting up the Software Node Groups ===== 130 130 131 131 The following snippet shows how the node groups for the routers are setup in the OMF control scripts. Node groups allow experimenters to use single statements to set configuration (e.g. network interfaces) and execute commands across all nodes belonging to the group. … … 216 216 [[CollapsibleEnd]] 217 217 218 ==== Setting up the 'OML enabled Monitor on Routers Application'====218 ===== Setting up the 'OML enabled Monitor on Routers Application' ===== 219 219 220 220 At this point, the network topology described and initialized in Exercise 1 is supposed to be ready and functional. In order to produce synthetic traffic, we will use mfping to send packets between the end hosts. In order to perform more advanced network measurements, other applications are also available, such as a modified version of the commonly used application ''iperf''. As per the goal of the exercise, we will use an OML-enabled statistics monitor for !MobilityFirst routers in order to collect usage statistics on the nodes. … … 266 266 After running the experiment which should be able to retrieve statistics on a per sample base divided among different groups, based on the analyzed layer (i.e. network layer, link layer, physical layer). 267 267 268 == Execute==269 270 ==== Running the Benchmark Application====268 === Execute === 269 270 ===== Running the Benchmark Application ===== 271 271 272 272 To generate the traffic that will be reported by the routers, we will use the same ''mfping'' application as in the previous exercise. … … 344 344 345 345 346 ==== Visualizing the Performance Data====346 ===== Visualizing the Performance Data ===== 347 347 348 348 '''Method 1:''' the OMF framework supports a result service that allows experimenters to query data stored using the OML measurement framework. The query is performed over the web and requires that you know the ''experiment ID'' associated with your experiment - this is obtained from the output following the execution of the control script. It should look something like this : … … 363 363 364 364 365 == Finish==365 === Finish === 366 366 367 367 Once the application has successfully completed its task, follow these steps to complete the experiments: … … 370 370 This will stop all the applications and will conclude the experiment. 371 371 372 === References===372 ==== References ==== 373 373 374 374 For more information regarding the !MobilityFirst project, visit the project page: http://mobilityfirst.winlab.rutgers.edu/
