Introduction

As part of the collaboration between VSPERF and ETSI NFV TST working group, we developed and tested new methods to characterize the limits of data plane resources. The new methods are comprised of new search algorithm(s) to discover true resource limits (RFC 2544 Throughput, for example) while avoiding the effects of transient loss in the NFVI platform. The current search algorithm is called Binary Search with Loss Verification. A key aspect of each measurement completed during the search (a trial) is the duration of the test. The Trial Duration must be considerably less than the average time interval between transient events that cause frame loss. The details are described in ETSI GS NFV-TST 009 .

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