Automated Test Bench for High-Performance Network Equipment

Abstract

This paper presents an automated test bench that supports reproducible and holistic benchmarking of data plane and control plane performance. The modular architecture integrates the hardware-based traffic generator P4TG and the software-based traffic generator iperf3 for precise control over test traffic. Additionally, it supports automated Device under Test (DuT) reconfiguration between test runs and metric collection. A case study demonstrates the feasibility of the approach by measuring the performance of a modern P4-based COTS data center switch.