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Harald Welte gerrit-no-reply at lists.osmocom.orgHarald Welte has submitted this change and it was merged.
Change subject: osmux-reference: Add traffic saving plot
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osmux-reference: Add traffic saving plot
Change-Id: I8fa60c1f95436c39fd1ff9424a907876d367484e
---
M INSTALL.txt
M OsmoBSC/osmux-reference.adoc
M build/Makefile.asciidoc.inc
A build/python2-filter.conf
4 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
Approvals:
Harald Welte: Looks good to me, approved
Jenkins Builder: Verified
diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 6f19720..39653d3 100644
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
xsltproc \
dblatex \
mscgen \
- graphviz
+ graphviz \
+ python-pychart
Build PDFs, run:
make
diff --git a/OsmoBSC/osmux-reference.adoc b/OsmoBSC/osmux-reference.adoc
index 0f66118..4d03a4b 100644
--- a/OsmoBSC/osmux-reference.adoc
+++ b/OsmoBSC/osmux-reference.adoc
@@ -499,91 +499,67 @@
== Evaluation: Expected traffic savings
-The following figure shows the traffic saving (in %) depending on the number
-of concurrent numbers of callings (asumming trunking but no batching at all):
+The following figure shows the growth in traffic saving (in %) depending on the
+number of concurrent numbers of callings for a given set of batching factor
+values:
+
+["python2"]
----
- Traffic savings (%)
- 100 ++-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+-------+-------++
- + + + + + + batch factor 1 **E*** +
- | |
- 80 ++ ++
- | |
- | |
- | ****E********E
- 60 ++ ****E*******E********E*** ++
- | **E**** |
- | **** |
- 40 ++ *E** ++
- | ** |
- | ** |
- | ** |
- 20 ++ E ++
- | |
- + + + + + + + + +
- 0 ++-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+-------+-------++
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
- Concurrent calls
+from pychart import *
+theme.get_options()
+theme.scale_factor = 5
+theme.use_color = 1
+theme.reinitialize()
+
+IP_HEADER=20
+UDP_HEADER=8
+RTP_HEADER=12
+OSMUX_HEADER=4
+AMR59_PAYLOAD=17
+
+def osmux_get_size(calls, payloads):
+ return IP_HEADER + UDP_HEADER + (OSMUX_HEADER + AMR59_PAYLOAD * payloads) * calls
+
+def rtp_get_size(calls, payloads):
+ return calls * payloads * (IP_HEADER + UDP_HEADER + RTP_HEADER + AMR59_PAYLOAD)
+
+def calc_traffic_saving(calls, payloads):
+ return 100 - 100.0 * osmux_get_size(calls, payloads) / rtp_get_size(calls, payloads)
+
+# The first value in each tuple is the X value, and subsequent values are Y values for different lines.
+def gen_table():
+ data = []
+ for calls in range(1, 9):
+ col = (calls,)
+ for factor in range(1, 9):
+ col += (calc_traffic_saving(calls, factor),)
+ data.append(col)
+ return data
+
+def do_plot(data):
+ xaxis = axis.X(format="/hL%d", tic_interval = 1, label="Concurrent calls")
+ yaxis = axis.Y(format="%d%%", tic_interval = 10, label="Traffic Saving")
+ ar = area.T(x_axis=xaxis, y_axis=yaxis, y_range=(None,None), x_grid_interval=1, x_grid_style=line_style.gray70_dash3)
+ for y in range(1, len(data[0])):
+ plot = line_plot.T(label="bfactor "+str(y), data=data, ycol=y, tick_mark=tick_mark.circle1)
+ ar.add_plot(plot)
+ ar.draw()
+
+data = gen_table()
+do_plot(data)
----
-The results shows a saving of 15.79% with only one concurrent call, that
-quickly improves with more concurrent calls (due to trunking).
+The results show a saving of 15.79% with only one concurrent call and with
+batching disabled (bfactor 1), that quickly improves with more concurrent calls
+(due to trunking).
-We also provide the expected results by batching 4 messages for a single call:
-----
- Traffic savings (%)
- 100 ++-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+-------+-------++
- + + + + + + batch factor 4 **E*** +
- | |
- 80 ++ ++
- | |
- | |
- | ****E********E*******E********E*******E********E
- 60 ++ ****E**** ++
- | E*** |
- | |
- 40 ++ ++
- | |
- | |
- | |
- 20 ++ ++
- | |
- + + + + + + + + +
- 0 ++-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+-------+-------++
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
- Concurrent calls
-----
+By increasing the batching of messages to 4, the results show a saving of 56.68%
+with only one concurrent call. Trunking slightly improves the situation with
+more concurrent calls.
-The results show a saving of 56.68% with only one concurrent call. Trunking
-slightly improves the situation with more concurrent calls.
-
-We also provide the figure with batching factor of 8:
-----
- Traffic savings (%)
- 100 ++-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+-------+-------++
- + + + + + + batch factor 8 **E*** +
- | |
- 80 ++ ++
- | |
- | ****E*******E********E
- | ****E********E********E*******E**** |
- 60 ++ E*** ++
- | |
- | |
- 40 ++ ++
- | |
- | |
- | |
- 20 ++ ++
- | |
- + + + + + + + + +
- 0 ++-------+-------+--------+--------+-------+--------+-------+-------++
- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
- Concurrent calls
-----
-
-That shows very little improvement with regards to batching 4 messages.
-Still, we risk to degrade user experience. Thus, we consider a batching factor
-of 3 and 4 is adecuate.
+A batching factor of 8 provides very little improvement with regards to batching
+4 messages. Still, we risk to degrade user experience. Thus, we consider a
+batching factor of 3 and 4 is adecuate.
== Other proposed follow-up works
diff --git a/build/Makefile.asciidoc.inc b/build/Makefile.asciidoc.inc
index 56a6ed9..660d72a 100644
--- a/build/Makefile.asciidoc.inc
+++ b/build/Makefile.asciidoc.inc
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
cleanfiles += $(ASCIIDOCPDFS)
-ASCIIDOC_OPTS := -f $(BUILDDIR)/mscgen-filter.conf -f $(BUILDDIR)/diag-filter.conf -f $(BUILDDIR)/docinfo-releaseinfo.conf
+ASCIIDOC_OPTS := -f $(BUILDDIR)/mscgen-filter.conf -f $(BUILDDIR)/diag-filter.conf -f $(BUILDDIR)/docinfo-releaseinfo.conf -f $(BUILDDIR)/python2-filter.conf
DBLATEX_OPTS := -s $(ASCIIDOCSTYLE) -P draft.mode=yes -P draft.watermark=0
ifeq (,$(BUILD_RELEASE))
diff --git a/build/python2-filter.conf b/build/python2-filter.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca2ddaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/python2-filter.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#
+# AsciiDoc mscgen filter configuration file.
+#
+
+[python2-filter-style]
+python2-style=template="python2-block",subs=(),posattrs=("style","target"),filter='../build/filter-wrapper.py python2 - --output="{outdir={indir}}/{imagesdir=}{imagesdir?/}{target}"'
+
+[blockdef-listing]
+template::[python2-filter-style]
+
+[paradef-default]
+template::[python2-filter-style]
+
+[python2-block]
+template::[filter-image-pngsvg-blockmacro]
+
+[filter-image-pngsvg-blockmacro]
+{target%}{counter2:target-number}
+{target%}{set2:target:{docname}__{target-number}.{format={basebackend-docbook!png}{basebackend-docbook?png}}}
+|
+template::[image-blockmacro]
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Gerrit-MessageType: merged
Gerrit-Change-Id: I8fa60c1f95436c39fd1ff9424a907876d367484e
Gerrit-PatchSet: 1
Gerrit-Project: osmo-gsm-manuals
Gerrit-Branch: master
Gerrit-Owner: Pau Espin Pedrol <pespin at sysmocom.de>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>
Gerrit-Reviewer: Jenkins Builder