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US 9,438,489 B2Granted
Computing a performance characteristic of a network device
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorYordanos Beyene
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Abstract
A traffic profile or description of a mix of different types of traffic is provided to compute, using a model, a performance characteristic of a network device. The model relates a performance characteristic of the network device to parameters associated with different types of traffic.
Claims15
A method of characterizing a network device, comprising:
- receiving, by a system having a processor, traffic information, wherein the traffic information describes a mix of traffic according to different application-level protocols, wherein the traffic information comprises information relating to a plurality of flows, each respective flow of the plurality of flows corresponding to a respective application-level protocol of the different application-level protocols;
- converting, by the system, the traffic information to a traffic profile that describes traffic according to a transport protocol;
- inputting, by the system, the traffic profile corresponding to the traffic information into a model stored in a non-transitory storage medium, wherein the model relates a performance characteristic of the network device to parameters associated with different types of traffic;
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- computing, from the model in response to the input traffic profile, the performance characteristic of the network device.
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A system comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium to store a model that relates a performance characteristic of a network device to parameters associated with different types of traffic;
- at least one processor to:
- receive traffic information that describes a mix of traffic according to different application-level protocols, wherein the traffic information comprises information relating to a plurality of flows, each respective flow of the plurality of flows corresponding to a respective application-level protocol of the different application-level protocols;
- convert the traffic information to a traffic profile that describes traffic according to a transport protocol;
- input the traffic profile into the model;
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- compute a performance characteristic of the network device using the model in response to the input traffic profile, wherein the model outputs a value for the performance characteristic in response to parameters associated with the different types of traffic.
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An article comprising at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution cause a system having a processor to:
- receive traffic information that describes a mix of traffic according to different application-level protocols, wherein the traffic information comprises information relating to a plurality of flows, each respective flow of the plurality of flows corresponding to a respective application-level protocol of the different application-level protocols;
- convert the traffic information to a traffic profile that describes traffic according to a transport protocol;
- input the traffic profile corresponding to the traffic information into a model stored in a non-transitory storage medium, wherein the model relates a performance characteristic of the network device to cost parameters associated with different types of traffic;
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- compute, from the model in response to the input traffic profile, the performance characteristic of the network device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.