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Computer network performance metric
Throughput of a network can be measured using various tools available on different platforms. This page explains the theory behind what these tools set out to measure and the issues regarding these measurements. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Measuring network throughputA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Bioinformatics Research and ApplicationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Measuring network throughput in the cloud: The case of Amazon EC2Cited 39 times
- Go sideways: GoodputA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Data link layerA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
Bioinformatics Research and ApplicationsZhipeng Cai · 2013
Hands-on networking with Internet technologiesDouglas E. Comer, Douglas E Comer · 2002
Testbeds and Research Infrastructure. Development of Networks and CommunitiesThanasis Korakis · 2012
Drug efficacy, safety, and biologics discoverySean Ekins, Jinghai J. Xu · 2008
Clojure high performance programmingShantanu Kumar · 2013
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data MiningJian Pei · 2013
Handbook of Nanomaterials PropertiesBharat Bhushan, Dan Luo · 2014
Principles of gene manipulation and genomicsS. B. Primrose · 2006
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