Re: [bmwg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-bmwg-imix-genome-01.txt

[Al Morton <[e-mail]>]

At 08:10 AM 3/27/2012, Aamer Akhter (aakhter) wrote:

Al,

Just following up on the quick discussion on the live meeting at IETF-83
regarding the creation of a representative the IMIX:

        A cntrl+f search against CAIDA didn't turn up any matches.
Perhaps this got lost in the editing

Turns out that the CAIDA study is an indirect Reference, see below:

1.  Introduction

...
   Streams of constant packet size differ significantly from the
   conditions encountered in operational deployment, and so additional
   tests are sometimes conducted with a mixture of packet sizes.  The
   set of sizes used is often called an Internet Mix, or "IMIX"
   [Spirent], [IXIA], [Agilent].

   The mixture of sizes a networking device will encounter is highly
   variable and depends on many factors.  An IMIX suited for one
   networking device and deployment will not be appropriate for another.
   However, the mix of sizes may be known and the tester may be asked to
   augment the fixed size tests.  The references above cite the original
   studies and their methodologies - similar methods can be used to
   determine new size mixes.

hope that does it,
Al