Guidelines for Considering New Performance Metric Development
RFC 6390
| Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(October 2011; No errata)
Also known as BCP 170
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) A. Clark
Request for Comments: 6390 Telchemy Incorporated
BCP: 170 B. Claise
Category: Best Current Practice Cisco Systems, Inc.
ISSN: 2070-1721 October 2011
Guidelines for Considering New Performance Metric Development
Abstract
This document describes a framework and a process for developing
Performance Metrics of protocols and applications transported over
IETF-specified protocols. These metrics can be used to characterize
traffic on live networks and services.
Status of This Memo
This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6390.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................4
1.1. Background and Motivation ..................................4
1.2. Organization of This Document ..............................5
2. Terminology .....................................................5
2.1. Requirements Language ......................................5
2.2. Performance Metrics Directorate ............................5
2.3. Quality of Service .........................................5
2.4. Quality of Experience ......................................6
2.5. Performance Metric .........................................6
3. Purpose and Scope ...............................................6
4. Relationship between QoS, QoE, and Application-Specific
Performance Metrics .............................................7
5. Performance Metrics Development .................................7
5.1. Identifying and Categorizing the Audience ..................7
5.2. Definitions of a Performance Metric ........................8
5.3. Computed Performance Metrics ...............................9
5.3.1. Composed Performance Metrics ........................9
5.3.2. Index ..............................................10
5.4. Performance Metric Specification ..........................10
5.4.1. Outline ............................................10
5.4.2. Normative Parts of Performance Metric Definition ...11
5.4.3. Informative Parts of Performance Metric
Definition .........................................13
5.4.4. Performance Metric Definition Template .............14
5.4.5. Example: Loss Rate .................................15
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