Table of Contents
1Scope
1.1General
1.2Parameterstobemeasured
1.3Accuracyrequirementsofmeasurements
2References
3Definitions
4Abbreviations
5MeasurementMethodologies
5.1Useoftesttraffictoestimateperformanceparameters
5.2UseofOAMFramestoestimateperformance
6UseofFRF.19OAMFramestomeasuretheFrameRelay
performanceparameters
6.1Measurementduration,frequencyandsamplingrates
6.2OAMframeformat
6.3NetworkinitialisationandawarenessofOAM
capabilitieswithinanetwork
6.4Measurementofframelossinbothdirections
7Procedurestoestimateframetransferdelay
7.1Measurementproceduredescription
7.2Delaymeasurementinitiation
7.3Transferdelayinformationframeturnaround
7.4Calculationofframetransferdelay
7.5Deliveryofdelayresults
7.6Errorhandling
8Proceduresfortheestimationofframedelayjitter
9Proceduresforestimationofframelossratio/frame
deliveredratio
9.1Proceduresforframedeliveryratiomeasurement
9.2Framedeliveryratioinitiation
9.3Framedeliveryratiomeasurement
9.4Deliveryofframedeliveryratioresults
9.5FDRerrorhandling
10Proceduresfordatadeliveryratiomeasurement
10.1Datadeliveryratioinitiation
10.2Datadeliveryratiomeasurement
10.3Deliveryofdatadeliveryratioresults
10.4DDRerrorhandling
11Framerelayserviceavailabilityestimationprocedures
AnnexA-Measurementarchitecturesapplicabletotheuseof
testtrafficfortheestimationofperformance
A.1Generalconsiderationsandmeasurementmethodologies
A.2Framerelayperformanceparametersandmeasurement
architectures
A.3Loopbacks
AnnexB-OAMmessageformats
B.1BasicFR-OAMframestructure
B.2Frametransferdelayinformationfield
B.3Frametransferdelayresultsinformationfield
B.4Framedeliveryratiosyncinformationfield
B.5Framedeliveryratioresultsinformationfield
AppendixI-OAMmessageflows
I.1UseofHellomessagesfornetworkdiscovery
I.2FTDmeasurement
I.3FDR/DDRmeasurement
AppendixII-Exampleofframedeliveryratio(loss)
calculations
II.1Ingressprocessing
II.2Egressprocessing Abstract
Defines procedures for the measurement and assessment of the user information transfer performance parameters of Frame Relay virtual connections.
