DELIVERABLE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

D2303 Report on the development of measurement utilities for the second trial
 

This deliverable summarises the results regarding the measurement utilities of the first trial of AQUILA, states the goals for the second trial and describes the enhancements for the second trial.

The main feedback for the measurement utilities from the first trial was:

  • System integration has to be simplified
  • Graphical user interface (GUI) should be enhanced
  • More sophisticated load generators for measurement flows are needed
  • Number of simultaneously running flows must be increased

Out of this feedback and because of the development of the AQUILA architecture for the sec-ond trial, the following goals are targeted for the second trial:

  • Easier system integration of the components at the trial sites
  • Simplification and improvement in the functionality of the GUI
  • Provide support for MBAC
  • Implementation of new load generator models for more flexibility in load generation
  • Automatic signalling to the AQUILA QoS architecture to perform reservations for meas-urement flows
  • Provide tools for the analysis of measurement results

To reach these goals, the distributed measurement architecture (DMA) designed for the first trial and its components have been enhanced for the second trial.

Useful measurement components from other projects will be integrated to enhance the second trial with

  • additional application-like load generators
  • passive measurements for the validation of MBAC