A Reference Path and Measurement Points for Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance
RFC 7398
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Bagnulo
Request for Comments: 7398 UC3M
Category: Informational T. Burbridge
ISSN: 2070-1721 BT
S. Crawford
SamKnows
P. Eardley
BT
A. Morton
AT&T Labs
February 2015
A Reference Path and Measurement Points for
Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance
Abstract
This document defines a reference path for Large-scale Measurement of
Broadband Access Performance (LMAP) and measurement points for
commonly used performance metrics. Other similar measurement
projects may also be able to use the extensions described here for
measurement point location. The purpose is to create an efficient
way to describe the location of the measurement point(s) used to
conduct a particular measurement.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Purpose and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Reference Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Subscriber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. Dedicated Component (Links or Nodes) . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4. Shared Component (Links or Nodes) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.5. Resource Transition Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.6. Service Demarcation Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.7. Managed and Unmanaged Sub-paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Reference Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Measurement Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Examples of Reference Paths with Various Technologies . . . . 11
7. Example of Reference Path with Resource Transition . . . . . 13
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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1. Introduction
This document defines a reference path for Large-scale Measurement of
Broadband Access Performance (LMAP) or similar measurement projects.
The series of IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) RFCs have developed terms
that are generally useful for path description (see Section 5 of
[RFC2330]). There are a limited number of additional terms defined
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