Performance Evaluation of TCP/IP on ATM LAM Testbed

LAN Emulation and IPOA are the two most widei y accepted network protocols which allow to provide conventional LAN-based data services on ATM LAN environment. In this paper, the performance of IPOA and LAN Emulation on ATM LAN testbed is compared and the results are compared with performance of Ethernet as well. For performance comparison, metrics such as application throughput, latency, CPU usage are used. In addition, a network program that uses the socket based TCP/IP application programming interface to send large data files from client to server via ATM LAN switch is developed. IPOA provides lower latency and higher throughput than LAN Emulation while LAN Emulation consumes more CPU usage.