2.4.1 Benchmarking Methodology (bmwg)

NOTE: This charter is a snapshot of the 78th IETF Meeting in Maastricht, Netherlands. It may now be out-of-date.

Last Modified: 2010-06-15

Chair(s):

Al Morton <acmorton@att.com>

Operations and Management Area Director(s):

Dan Romascanu <dromasca@avaya.com>
Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net>

Operations and Management Area Advisor:

Ronald Bonica <rbonica@juniper.net>

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Description of Working Group:

The major goal of the Benchmarking Methodology Working Group is to make
a series of recommendations concerning the measurement of the
performance characteristics of various internetworking technologies;
further, these recommendations may focus on the systems or services that
are built from these technologies.

Each recommendation will describe the class of equipment, system, or
service being addressed; discuss the performance characteristics that
are pertinent to that class; clearly identify a set of metrics that aid
in the description of those characteristics; specify the methodologies
required to collect said metrics; and lastly, present the requirements
for the common, unambiguous reporting of benchmarking results.

To better distinguish the BMWG from other measurement initiatives in the
IETF, the scope of the BMWG is limited to technology characterization
using simulated stimuli in a laboratory environment.  Said differently,
the BMWG does not attempt to produce benchmarks for live, operational
networks. Moreover, the benchmarks produced by this WG shall strive to
be vendor independent or otherwise have universal applicability to a
given technology class.

Because the demands of a particular technology may vary from deployment
to deployment, a specific non-goal of the Working Group is to define
acceptance criteria or performance requirements.

An ongoing task is to provide a forum for discussion regarding the
advancement of measurements designed to provide insight on the operation
inter-networking technologies.

In addition to its current work plan, the BMWG is explicitly tasked to
develop benchmarks and methodologies for the following technologies:

* MPLS Forwarding: Develop specific methods to characterize the
latency and forwarding performance of MPLS devices, extending the
fundamental recommendations of RFC 1242 and RFC 2544 to this networking
technology.

* SIP Networking Devices: Develop new terminology and methods to
characterize the key performance aspects of network devices using
SIP, including the signaling plane scale and service rates while
considering load conditions on both the signaling and media planes. This
work will be harmonized with related SIP performance metric definitions
prepared by the PMOL working group.

Goals and Milestones:

Done  Expand the current Ethernet switch benchmarking methodology draft to define the metrics and methodologies particular to the general class of connectionless, LAN switches.
Done  Edit the LAN switch draft to reflect the input from BMWG. Issue a new version of document for comment. If appropriate, ascertain consensus on whether to recommend the draft for consideration as an RFC.
Done  Take controversial components of multicast draft to mailing list for discussion. Incorporate changes to draft and reissue appropriately.
Done  Submit workplan for initiating work on Benchmarking Methodology for LAN Switching Devices.
Done  Submit workplan for continuing work on the Terminology for Cell/Call Benchmarking draft.
Done  Submit initial draft of Benchmarking Methodology for LAN Switches.
Done  Submit Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking draft for AD Review.
Done  Submit Benchmarking Terminology for Firewall Performance for AD review
Done  Progress ATM benchmarking terminology draft to AD review.
Done  Submit Benchmarking Methodology for LAN Switching Devices draft for AD review.
Done  Submit first draft of Firewall Benchmarking Methodology.
Done  First Draft of Terminology for FIB related Router Performance Benchmarking.
Done  First Draft of Router Benchmarking Framework
Done  Progress Frame Relay benchmarking terminology draft to AD review.
Done  Methodology for ATM Benchmarking for AD review.
Done  Terminology for ATM ABR Benchmarking for AD review.
Done  Terminology for FIB related Router Performance Benchmarking to AD review.
Done  Firewall Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review
Done  First Draft of Methodology for FIB related Router Performance Benchmarking.
Done  First draft Net Traffic Control Benchmarking Methodology.
Done  Methodology for IP Multicast Benchmarking to AD Review.
Done  Resource Reservation Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review
Done  First I-D on IPsec Device Benchmarking Terminology
Done  EGP Convergence Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review
Done  Resource Reservation Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review
Done  Net Traffic Control Benchmarking Terminology to AD Review
Done  IGP/Data-Plane Terminology I-D to AD Review
Done  IGP/Data-Plane Methodology and Considerations I-Ds to AD Review
Done  Hash and Stuffing I-D to AD Review
Done  IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review
Done  IPsec Device Benchmarking Terminology to IESG Review
Done  IPsec Device Benchmarking Methodology to IESG Review
Dec 2008  Net Traffic Control Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review.
Dec 2008  Router Accelerated Test Terminology to IESG Review
Dec 2008  Router Accelerated Test Methodology to IESG Review
Feb 2009  Terminology For Protection Benchmarking to AD Review
Feb 2009  Methodology For Protection Benchmarking to AD Review
Done  Methodology for MPLS Forwarding to AD Review
Jun 2009  Terminology for SIP Device Benchmarking to IESG Review
Jun 2009  Methodology for SIP Device Benchmarking to IESG Review
Dec 2009  Router Accelerated Test Method for EBGP to IESG Review
Dec 2009  Router Accelerated Test Method for Operational Security to IESG Review
Jul 2010  Basic BGP Convergence Benchmarking Methodology to AD Review.
Sep 2010  Networking Device Reset Benchmark (Updates RFC 2544) to IESG Review

Internet-Drafts:

  • draft-ietf-bmwg-igp-dataplane-conv-meth-21.txt
  • draft-ietf-bmwg-igp-dataplane-conv-term-21.txt
  • draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-term-09.txt
  • draft-ietf-bmwg-sip-bench-term-02.txt
  • draft-ietf-bmwg-sip-bench-meth-02.txt
  • draft-ietf-bmwg-reset-01.txt

    Request For Comments:

    RFCStatusTitle
    RFC1242 I Benchmarking Terminology for Network Interconnection Devices
    RFC1944 I Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices
    RFC2285 I Benchmarking Terminology for LAN Switching Devices
    RFC2432 I Terminology for IP Multicast Benchmarking
    RFC2544 I Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices
    RFC2647 I Benchmarking Terminology for Firewall Performance
    RFC2761 I Terminology for ATM Benchmarking
    RFC2889 I Benchmarking Methodology for LAN Switching Devices
    RFC3116 I Methodology for ATM Benchmarking
    RFC3133 I Terminology for Frame Relay Benchmarking
    RFC3134 I Terminology for ATM ABR Benchmarking
    RFC3222 I Terminology for Forwarding Information Base (FIB) based Router Performance
    RFC3511 I Benchmarking Methodology for Firewall Performance
    RFC3918 I Methodology for IP Multicast Benchmarking
    RFC4061 I Benchmarking Basic OSPF Single Router Control Plane Convergence
    RFC4062 I OSPF Benchmarking Terminology and Concepts
    RFC4063 I Considerations When Using Basic OSPF Convergence Benchmarks
    RFC4098 I Terminology for Benchmarking BGP Device Convergence in the Control Plane
    RFC4689 I Terminology for Benchmarking Network-layer Traffic Control Mechanisms
    RFC4814 I Hash and Stuffing: Overlooked Factors in Network Device Benchmarking
    RFC4883 I Benchmarking Terminology for Resource Reservation Capable Routers
    RFC5180 I IPv6 Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices
    RFC5695 I MPLS Forwarding Benchmarking Methodology for IP Flows

    Meeting Minutes


    Slides

    Agenda, Status, Milestones
    SIP Device Benchmarking
    Device Reset Characterization
    IGP Data Plane Convergence
    Basic BGP Data Plane Convergence Benchmarking
    Revised Charter for Discussion
    Content-Aware Device Benchmarking Methodology