Canopy Bandwidth

Management

Working Setup
and
Test Results

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 Requirements

• Verify the performance of Canopy’s

bandwidth management algorithm
– Identify the functions of the different bandwidth settings
• Sustained information rate
• Committed information rate
– Determine how Canopy implements fair sharing
– Determine how Canopy handles limit cases

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 Lab Setup

• Equipment used
– 1 Advantage AP (5750AP)
– 3 Advantage SM (5750SM)
– 1 Canopy CMM
– 4 Test PCs

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 Lab Setup

• Working Setup

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 Initial Performance
• Latency
(ms) min ave max Loss

SM1 3.25 6.42 10.33 0%

SM2 2.91 6.57 12.55 0%

SM3 3.18 5.82 9.95 0%

• Througput
(Mbps) unidirectional bidirectional

downlink uplink downlink uplink

SM1 5.47 1.71 5.44 1.54

SM2 5.47 1.76 5.26 1.55

SM3 5.47 1.76 5.48 1.56

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 Tests Performed

1. Downlink MIR/CIR
Objective:
Determine how Canopy enforces downlink MIR and
CIR settings with varying levels of network traffic.
Settings:
Canopy running at 1X.
MIR CIR

SM1 2048 2048

SM2 2048 2048

SM3 variable variable

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 Tests Performed

1. Downlink MIR/CIR
Results:
SM3 (kbps) Downlink Throughput Remarks
(Mbps)
MIR CIR SM1 SM2 SM3

2048 2048 1.87 1.85 1.87 Capacity evenly distributed.

1024 1024 2.11 2.10 1.04 SM3 MIR/CIR enforced

512 512 2.10 2.09 0.52 SM3 MIR/CIR enforced

2048 1024 2.10 2.10 1.45 SM3 gets CIR + spare bw

1024 512 2.09 2.08 1.03 SM3 MIR enforced

512 256 2.10 2.10 0.52 SM3 MIR enforced

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 Tests Performed

2. Uplink MIR/CIR
Objective:
Determine how Canopy enforces Uplink MIR and
CIR settings with varying levels of network traffic.
Settings:
Canopy running at 1X.
MIR CIR

SM1 1024 1024

SM3 variable variable

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 Tests Performed

2. Uplink MIR/CIR
Results:
Sustained
Uplink Throughput
SM3 (kbps) Downlink Remarks
(Mbps)
Throughput
MIR CIR SM1 SM3 SM1

1024 1024 0.823 0.846 2.00 Capacity evenly distributed.

512 512 1.05 0.522 2.00 SM3 MIR/CIR enforced

256 256 1.06 0.263 2.00 SM3 MIR/CIR enforced

1024 512 1.05 0.617 2.00 SM3 gets CIR + spare bw

512 256 1.05 0.523 2.00 SM3 MIR enforced

256 128 1.04 0.261 2.00 SM3 MIR enforced

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 Tests Performed

3. Limit cases
Objective:
Determine how Canopy enforces MIR and CIR
settings at the algorithm limits.
Settings:
Canopy running at 1X.

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 Tests Performed

3. Limit cases
Results:
Downlink
MIR CIR Remarks
(Mbps)

SM1 max 0 0.10 If assigned CIR exceeds the

maximum capacity of the AP, SM
SM3 6192 6192 5.43 without CIR gets no bandwidth.

SM1 max 0 2.78 If assigned MIR exceeds the

maximum capacity of the AP, it is
SM3 6192 0 2.78 not enforced.

SM1 max 2048 1.95 When total assigned CIR exceeds

the maximum capacity of the AP,
bandwidth is distributed based on
SM3 max 4096 3.59 CIR settings.

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 Conclusions
• The bandwidth management of Canopy is working effectively.

• SMs with default MIR settings or MIR settings that exceed the
maximum radio capacity, and zero CIR settings are considered as best
effort.

• SMs with MIR settings within the maximum radio capacity achieve the
MIR consistently.

• SMs with CIR settings are prioritized over other SMs.

• If MIR settings cannot be met, SMs get CIR plus any bandwidth left
over.

• If CIR settings cannot be met, SMs get bandwidth distributed based on

CIR.

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