Measuring the Performance and Efficiency of e- Governance Infrastructure: A Case Study of H.P.University Campus Network

This paper presents a study of performance and efficiency measurement of e-Governance Infrastructure backbone of HIMSWAN i.e Campus Wide Optical Fiber Network (CWOFN) in the campus of Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) Shimla, (H.P.), within the framework of B- Node theory and its abstraction given by Cikara et al (2006). Efficient CWOFN is one of the very important backbone for the implementation of e-governance in any university/institute and their connectivity at State and National level, if the efficiency and performance of the campus network is not viable and sufficient for running various applications related to e-governance, then efforts of implementing e-governance may go waste. Objective of this paper is - How to implement efficient and high performance backbone with pre-tested active and passive components using Jperf Software tool. It has been done in two phases: i) Using the efficiency parameters given by Cikara et al, for different nodes, efficiency of different networks have been found and compared among each other. ii) Finally, the segment/ component-wise efficiencies were measured for the real network system on the H.P. University campus, as a case study, which are compared with those given by Cikara et al.