Throughput

What is Throughput?

Throughput is the average rate of successful data delivery to the destination. Most of the time throughput is measured in bits per second (bit/s or more commonly known bps), and sometimes in data packets per seconds.

Maximum Throughput

Users always tried to discover  the maximum throughput of their telecommunication devices. In reality there is a big difference between the 'Maximum Theoretical Throughput' and the 'Maximum Achievable Throughput'.

The 'Maximum Theoretical Throughput'  is more related to the channel capacity or in other words how much data theoretically can be transmitted under ideal circumstances.

The 'Maximum Achievable Throughput' assumes only data packets on a channel, it takes into account control packets and overhead which reduce the amount of available space for data packets

Simulation

Use the command prompt to start the flow between the hosts and observe the throughput chart.
Play around with the the sender interval and links error rate to see how they effect the the receiver's throughput

In our Simulation we measure the throughput in packet per second.