In reference to the HEC meeting to be held in the last week of May 2011, we tried to analyse the network performance for PoP node (pingerjms.pern.edu.pk) and Non PoP node (pinger.usindh.edu.pk) both at University of Sindh Jamshoro.
Metric Measurements and Results
Looking at the pingtable.pl and getting data from Pakistan to pingerjms and Pakistan to usindh node, we see the following results that show the performance of both of the nodes in the first 15 days of May.
Find spreadsheet here.
The graphs clearly show that the PoP node performance is worse than the non-PoP node. In order to get a better insight into finding the reason of this degraded performance, we looked at the traceroutes for both of the nodes from pinger.pern.edu.pk (Islamabad Pern PoP). However, the traceroutes for both of the nodes are throwing error messages.
Traceroute Results from pinger.pern.edu.pk
While trying to access pingerjms.pern.edu.pk (PoP Jamshoro) from pinger.pern.edu.pk (PoP Islamabad) following traceroute results were obtained
Executing exec(traceroute, -m 30 -q 3 -f 3, 121.52.154.2, 140) traceroute to 121.52.154.2 (121.52.154.2), 30 hops max, 140 byte packets 4 rwp44.pie.net.pk (221.120.251.58) 35.530 ms 35.491 ms 35.424 ms 5 khi77.pie.net.pk (221.120.205.70) 36.129 ms 36.417 ms 36.490 ms 6 pinger.hyd.usindh.edu.pk (121.52.154.2) 35.945 ms 35.931 ms 35.916 ms
However, while accessing usindh (non PoP Jamshoro) we found
Executing exec(traceroute, -m 30 -q 3 -f 3, 121.52.155.62, 140) traceroute to 121.52.155.62 (121.52.155.62), 30 hops max, 140 byte packets 4 rwp44.pie.net.pk (221.120.251.58) 35.473 ms 35.442 ms 35.451 ms 5 khi77.pie.net.pk (221.120.205.70) 36.107 ms 36.347 ms 36.388 ms 6 172.31.253.66 (172.31.253.66) 36.077 ms 36.201 ms 36.248 ms 7 usindh.edu.pk (121.52.156.130) 36.550 ms 36.583 ms 36.623 ms 8 (121.52.155.62) 36.917 ms !X 36.899 ms !X 36.885 ms !X
Extra hops can be seen in Usindh traceroute (hop 6 and 7). For both of the nodes, it takes 36.105 ~ 36.4 ms to reach the hop khi77.pie.net.pk, however, as the hops are increased for accessing usindh , an increased RTT of 0.9 ms is observed. This is a small difference in RTT for the two nodes. This difference can be due to temporary congested network and long queues.
Comparison of Khi-PoP and Neduet
As the results of jamshoro and university of sindh do not go with the theoretical analysis, we tried to find out the performance of other PoPs as compared to one other pern node in the same city.
First we chose Karachi POP and NEDUET. For the time being we only compared the average RTT.
Karachi PoP is performing better than neduet.
Now we want to confirm it by checking some other POP and non POP pair.
Comparison of Islamabad-PoP and NCP
We now tried to compare the average RTT from Pakistan to PERN POP Islamabad and to NCP (National College of Physics, Islamabad).
Here, it is seen that NCP performs way better than POP.
The results are not enough to reach a conclusion so we decided to make yet another comparison on a POP - Non PoP pair.
Comparison of Quetta-PoP and UOB
We here compared quetta POP and Non PoP.
Resulting graph shows that the Quetta PoP and UOB perform quite same, however, looking at fine granulation it is observed that Quetta POP performs better than UOB but gives unreliable spikes which makes its performance worse. On the other hand, UOB has a consistent and stable performance.
