MANUAL:
ABRtest, An Implementation Tool for Conformance Testing the ATM ABR Service Rate Control

1998

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Abstract

This document describes an implementation of the confromance test suite for the Available Bit Rate (ABR) service rate control scheme that has been proposed in the ATM Forum. This implementation, called ABRtest, is intended to provide a tool for researchers and network designers who wish to construct their own custom test facilities for providing the conformance of their ABR rate control schemes to the proposed standard. The implementation consists of two distinct parts: an Upper Tester (UT) which resides on the same platform as the system under test, and a Lower Tester (LT) which resides on a separate platform. The first part of this document contains the user's guide for the ABRtest. It begins with an explanation of the architecture of a proposed conformance test system. This is followed by instructions on the operational details that the user must know to set up the tests, adjust test parameters, and interpret the results in the test log. The second part gives detailed instructions on how to port ABRtest to the user's system.