Summary of Results
| Averages | ||
| Number of Simultaneous Connections | Serial (ms) | Non-Serial (ms) |
| 1 | 8.9 | 9.2 |
| 5 | 9.49 | 10.61 |
| 10 | 10.18 | 12.04 |
| Speedup After Change to Non-Serial Communication | |
| Number of Simultaneous Connections | Speedup |
| 1 | 0.968 |
| 5 | 0.894 |
| 10 | 0.846 |
| Transmission Sizes | |
| Connection Type | Size (bytes) |
| Serialized | 562 |
| Non-serialized | 2410 (562) |
An oddity occurred with the non-serialized transmissions - it continued to send ACK packets from the server to the client after the main communication had been completed. Comparing to the serialized transmissions, these two were almost identical, except for these extra transmissions. Discounting these, the sizes came out exactly the same, however this result should be considered as a possible source of error, as discussed later.
Possible Sources of Error
- The actual implementation of non-serialized data transmission. The noted transmission size issue may be evidence of a deeper issue.
- The use of the router and the possible error it introduced.
- The perturbation due to inserted timing statements.