Approach to performance assessment of interoperability protocols

In today's diverse network environments, the interoperability protocols play an important role in performance of application systems. To assist performance assessments of application systems, we have proposed an approach to assess performance of interoperability protocols. The approach takes the real conditions of the system into account and proposes assessment criteria to make reasonable qualitative and quantitative performance analysis of interoperability protocols. In qualitative analysis, we obtain security, fault-tolerability, scalability, etc. In quantitative analysis, we build up an experimental model and a math model to obtain performance quantities such as response time, net bandwidth, and throughput. Finally, according to the criteria we have proposed, we produce the result of performance assessment of interoperability protocols.