
A Modular Software Architecture
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Figure 25.25 (a) Round trip time and (b) throughput versus the number of emulated nodes.
Pentium IV 3 GHz with Intel 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet controllers and 1 GB of main memory.
Both systems were interconnected through a Cisco Catalyst 3550-12T Gigabit switch.
We consider the round trip time (RTT) to be an important performance criterion when
analyzing the delay of packets through ...