Master Test Plan Essential Testing for WLAN Networks ...

1 TEST PLANM aster Test PlanEssential Testing for WLAN Networks Master Test Plan915-6054-01 Version , August 2008 Veriwave, inc. PAGE 2 OF 308 Master Test plan Version History Date Version Comments 03/21/2007 Initial Release 08/08/2007 Modified and extended a/b/g Test Cases from Version Added 3 new QoS Functional Test Cases Added Test Case Profiles applicable to a specific SUT configuration or a specific test area 10/18/2007 Added Power Save Transition test cases Completed System and Stress test case sections Completes test plan 08/20/2008 Added Test Cases Modified Power Save and QoS Test cases to use WaveDynamix Removed Test Cases involving non-productized scripts 2008 Veriwave, inc. PAGE 3 OF 308 Master Test plan Table of Contents Introduction .. 9 Goals .. 10 SUT Overview .. 10 VeriWave Applications .. 11 Data Plane .. 12 Unicast Throughput .. 12 Unicast Forwarding Rate.

2 13 Unicast Packet Loss .. 13 Unicast Latency .. 13 TCP Goodput .. 14 Control Plane .. 14 Benchmark Roaming .. 14 Stress Association Database Capacity (Client Capacity) .. 15 QoS .. 15 VoIP QoS Service Capacity .. 15 VoIP Service Assurance .. 16 VoIP Roaming .. 16 Mesh .. 17 Mesh client capacity .. 17 Mesh VoIP call capacity .. 17 Mesh Throughput per hop .. 18 Mesh Forwarding Rate per hop .. 18 Mesh Latency per hop .. 18 Mesh Backhaul Failover (Self-healing) .. 18 Miscellaneous .. 18 AAA Authentication Load .. 18 Test-bed Configuration .. 19 Test Case Profiles .. 20 Single-AP Test Profile .. 21 Mesh Test Profile .. 24 QoS Test Profile .. 26 Roaming Test Profile .. 27 Test plan .. 28 Functional Verification .. 28 Association .. 28 ATC 001 Basic_80211a-mode_Association .. 29 ATC 002 Basic_80211bg-mode_Association .. 30 ATC 003 Basic_80211b-only-mode_Association .. 32 ATC 004 Basic_80211g-only-mode_Association .. 33 ATC 005 Mixed_80211ag-mode_Association .. 35 ATC 006 Mixed_80211ab-mode_Association.

3 36 2008 Veriwave, inc. PAGE 4 OF 308 Master Test plan ATC 007 Mixed_80211bg-mode_Association .. 38 ATC 008 Basic_80211n-mode_Association .. 40 ATC 009 Mixed_80211n-and-Legacy_Association .. 41 Security and DHCP .. 43 STC 001 Security_Baseline_Test .. 44 STC 002 Open_WEP40 .. 45 STC 003 Open_WEP128 .. 47 STC 004 Shared-Key_WEP40 .. 48 STC 005 Shared-Key_WEP128 .. 50 STC 006 52 STC 007 DWEP_EAP-TTLS .. 54 STC 008 DWEP_PEAP-MSCHAPv2 .. 55 STC 009 LEAP .. 57 STC 010 WPA_PSK_And_WPA_PSK_AES .. 59 STC 011 WPA_EAP-TLS_And_WPA_EAP-TLS_AES .. 60 STC 012 WPA_EAP-TTLS .. 62 STC 013 WPA_PEAP-MSCHAPv2_And_WPA_PEAP-MSCHAPv2_ AES .. 64 STC 014 WPA_EAP-FAST .. 66 STC 015 WPA_LEAP .. 68 STC 016 WPA2_PSK_And_WPA2_PSK_TKIP .. 69 STC 017 WPA2_EAP-TLS_And_WPA2_EAP-TLS_TKIP .. 71 STC 018 WPA2_EAP-TTLS .. 73 STC 019 WPA2_PEAP-MSCHAPv2_And_WPA2_PEAP-MSCHAPv 2_TKIP . 75 STC 020 WPA2_EAP-FAST .. 76 STC 021 WPA2_LEAP .. 78 STC 022 Mixed_WPA_WPA2_PSK .. 80 STC 023 Mixed_WPA_PSK_WPA2_EAP-TLS .. 82 STC 024 Mixed_80211bg_WEP_WPA2_EAP-TLS.

4 84 Basic Forwarding .. 86 BTC 001 Upstream_80211g_Packet_Loss_Sweep .. 86 BTC 002 Downstream_80211g_Packet_Loss_Sweep .. 88 BTC 003 Bidirectional_80211g_Packet_Loss_Sweep .. 89 BTC 004 Upstream_80211a_Packet_Loss_Sweep .. 91 BTC 002 Downstream_80211a_Packet_Loss_Sweep .. 92 BTC 003 Bidirectional_80211a_Packet_Loss_Sweep .. 94 Power Save .. 95 PTC 001 Power_Save_Baseline_CAM_Test .. 96 PTC 002 Power-Save_Legacy_PS_Poll .. 97 PTC 003 Power-Save_APSD .. 99 PTC 004 Power-Save_Mixed_1 .. 101 PTC 005 Power-Save_Mixed_2 .. 103 PTC 006 Power-Save_Mixed_3 .. 105 PTC 007 Power-Save_Mixed_4 .. 107 PTC 008 Power-Save_Mixed_5 .. 109 QoS .. 111 2008 Veriwave, inc. PAGE 5 OF 308 Master Test plan QTC 001 Basic_WMM_Association .. 112 QTC 002 Single_Station_Downstream_Fairness .. 113 QTC 003 Single_Station_Downstream_Priority .. 115 QTC 004 Multi_Station_Downstream_Fairness .. 117 QTC 005 Multi_Station_Downstream_Priority .. 119 QTC 006 Multi_Station_Upstream_Fairness .. 122 QTC 007 Multi_Station_Upstream_Priority.

5 124 QTC 008 Legacy_QoS_Coexistence .. 126 QTC 009 Basic_Call_Admission_Control .. 129 QTC 010 Call_Admission_Control_Denial_PHY_Rate .. 131 QTC 011 Call_Admission_Control_Denial_Utilizatio n .. 133 QTC 012 Call_Admission_Control .. 135 Basic Operational Modes .. 137 BOTC 001 80211n_Spatial-Stream_Operation .. 138 BOTC 002 80211n_Mixed_Spatial-Stream_Operation .. 139 BOTC 003 80211n_Mixed_SGI-and-LGI_Operation .. 141 BOTC 004 80211n_AMPDU_Aggregate_Receive .. 143 BOTC 005 80211n_AMPDU_Aggregate_Transmit .. 144 Performance and Capacity Benchmarks .. 146 Capacity and Coverage Benchmarking .. 147 Client/Call Capacity .. 147 CBTC 001 Max_Client_Capacity .. 147 CBTC 002 149 CBTC 003 Max_VoIP_Call_Capacity .. 150 CBTC 004 Max_VoIP_Call_Capacity_DHCP .. 152 Rate vs. 154 CBTC 010 Rate_vs_Range_80211b .. 154 CBTC 011 Rate_vs_Range_80211g .. 155 CBTC 012 Rate_vs_Range_80211a .. 156 Performance Benchmarking .. 158 Throughput .. 158 PBTC 001 Upstream_UDP_80211g_Throughput .. 158 PBTC 002 Downstream_UDP_80211g_Throughput.

6 159 PBTC 003 Bidirectional_UDP_80211g_Throughput .. 161 PBTC 004 Upstream_UDP_80211a_Throughput .. 162 PBTC 005 Downstream_UDP_80211a_Throughput .. 163 PBTC 006 Bidirectional_UDP_80211a_Throughput .. 164 PBTC 007 Upstream_TCP_80211g_Throughput .. 165 PBTC 008 Downstream_TCP_80211g_Throughput .. 167 PBTC 009 Upstream_TCP_80211a_Throughput .. 168 PBTC 010 Downstream_TCP_80211a_Throughput .. 169 Throughput .. 170 PBTC 100 Upstream_HT-non-Aggregate_Throughput .. 171 PBTC 101 Downstream_ HT-non-Aggregate _Throughput .. 172 PBTC 102 Bidirectional_ HT-non-Aggregate _Throughput .. 174 2008 Veriwave, inc. PAGE 6 OF 308 Master Test plan PBTC 103 Upstream_HT-AMPDU_20 MHz_Throughput .. 175 PBTC 104 Downstream_ HT-AMPDU_20 MHz_Throughput .. 177 PBTC 105 Bidirectional_ HT-AMPDU _20 MHz_Throughput .. 178 PBTC 106 Upstream_HT-AMPDU_40 MHz_Throughput .. 180 PBTC 107 Downstream_ HT-AMPDU _40 MHz_Throughput .. 181 PBTC 108 Bidirectional_ HT-AMPDU _40 MHz_Throughput .. 183 PBTC 109 Upstream_HT-AMPDU_40 MHz_SGI_Throughput.

7 184 PBTC 110 Downstream_ HT-AMPDU _40 MHz_SGI_Throughput .. 186 PBTC 111 Bidirectional_ HT-AMPDU _40 MHz_SGI_Throughput .. 188 PBTC 112 Upstream_20 MHz_LGI_Mixed-mode_Throughput .. 189 PBTC 113 Downstream_ 20 MHz_LGI_Mixed-mode_Throughput .. 191 PBTC 114 Bidirectional_20 MHz_LGI_Mixed-mode_Throughput .. 192 PBTC 115 Upstream_40 MHz_SGI_Mixed-mode_Throughput .. 194 PBTC 116 Downstream_ 40 MHz_SGI_Mixed-mode_Throughput .. 195 PBTC 117 Bidirectional_40 MHz_SGI_Mixed-mode_Throughput .. 197 Packet Latency .. 198 PBTC 015 Upstream_80211g_Packet_Latency .. 199 PBTC 016 Downstream_80211g_Packet_Latency .. 200 PBTC 017 Upstream_80211a_Packet_Latency .. 201 PBTC 018 Downstream_80211a_Packet_Latency .. 202 Packet Loss .. 203 PBTC 019 Upstream_80211g_Packet_Loss .. 204 PBTC 020 Downstream_80211g_Packet_Loss .. 205 PBTC 021 Upstream_80211a_Packet_Loss .. 206 PBTC 022 Downstream_80211a_Packet_Loss .. 208 Maximum Forwarding Rate .. 209 PBTC 023 Upstream_80211g_Max_Forwarding Rate .. 209 PBTC 024 Downstream_80211g_Max_Forwarding Rate.

8 211 PBTC 025 Upstream_80211a_Max_Forwarding Rate .. 212 PBTC 026 Downstream_80211a_Max_Forwarding Rate .. 213 Maximum Stateful TCP Goodput .. 214 PBTC 027 Upstream_80211g_Max_TCP_Goodput .. 215 PBTC 028 Downstream_80211g_Max_TCP_Goodput .. 216 PBTC 029 Upstream_80211a_Max_TCP_Goodput .. 217 PBTC 030 Downstream_80211a_Max_TCP_Goodput .. 219 Roaming Performance .. 220 PBTC 031 Roaming_Delay_80211g_Baseline .. 220 PBTC 032 Roaming_Delay_80211a_Baseline .. 222 PBTC 033 Roaming_Delay_80211g_Secure .. 223 PBTC 034 Roaming_Delay_80211a_Secure .. 224 PBTC 035 Roaming_Delay_80211g_DHCP .. 226 PBTC 036 Roaming_Delay_80211a_DHCP .. 227 PBTC 037 Roaming_Delay_80211g_Accel .. 228 PBTC 038 Roaming_Delay_80211a_Accel .. 230 PBTC 039 Roaming_Delay_80211g_MultiSSID .. 232 2008 Veriwave, inc. PAGE 7 OF 308 Master Test plan PBTC 040 Roaming_Delay_80211a_MultiSSID .. 234 Mesh Per-Hop and Aggregate Throughput .. 235 PBTC 041 Upstream_UDP_Per-Hop_Throughput .. 236 PBTC 042 Downstream_UDP_Per-Hop_Throughput.

9 237 PBTC 043 Bidirectional_UDP_Per-Hop_Throughput .. 239 PBTC 044 Upstream_TCP_Per-Hop_Throughput .. 240 PBTC 045 Downstream_TCP_Per-Hop_Throughput .. 241 PBTC 046 Bidirectional_TCP_Per-Hop_Throughput .. 243 PBTC 047 Upstream_UDP_Aggregate_Throughput .. 244 PBTC 048 Downstream_UDP_Aggregate_Throughput .. 245 PBTC 049 Bidirectional_UDP_Aggregate_Throughput .. 247 PBTC 050 Upstream_TCP_Aggregate_Throughput .. 248 PBTC 051 Downstream_TCP_Aggregate_Throughput .. 249 PBTC 052 Bidirectional_TCP_Aggregate_Throughput .. 251 Mesh Per-Hop and Aggregate Packet Latency .. 252 PBTC 053 Upstream_UDP_Per-Hop_Latency .. 253 PBTC 054 Downstream_UDP_Per-Hop_Latency .. 254 PBTC 055 Upstream_UDP_Aggregate_Latency .. 255 PBTC 056 Downstream_UDP_Aggregate_Latency .. 256 Quality of Service .. 258 PBTC 059 VoIP_SLA_Assurance .. 258 PBTC 060 VoIP_Roaming_80211g .. 260 PBTC 061 VoIP_Roaming_80211a .. 261 PBTC 062 VoIP_Roaming_80211g_Accel .. 263 PBTC 063 VoIP_Roaming_80211a_Accel .. 265 Client Association Rate.

10 267 PBTC 066 Max_Client_Association_Rate .. 267 PBTC 067 Max_Client_Association_Rate_DHCP .. 269 System Testing .. 270 Traffic Variation .. 270 TVTC 001 Data_Load_Isolation .. 271 TVTC 002 Roaming_Isolation_Network .. 272 TVTC 003 Roaming_Isolation_SSID .. 274 WiMix tests .. 276 WMTC 001 WiMix_Hospital_Environment .. 276 WMTC 002 WiMix_Enterprise_Environment .. 278 WMTC 003 WiMix_University_Environment .. 279 WMTC 004 WiMix_Retail_Environment .. 281 WMTC 005 WiMix_Triple_Play_Unicast .. 283 WMTC 006 WiMix_Triple_Play_Multicast .. 285 Mesh Interference Effects .. 287 IETC 001 Mesh_UDP_Throughput_Interference_Impact .. 287 IETC 002 Mesh_Latency_Interference_Impact .. 288 Stress Testing .. 290 Traffic Stress .. 291 2008 Veriwave, inc. PAGE 8 OF 308 Master Test plan TSTC 001 Traffic_Stress .. 291 Roaming Stress .. 293 RSTC 001 Data_Roaming_Stress .. 293 RSTC 002 VoIP_Roaming_Stress .. 295 Connection Stress .. 298 CSTC 001 Client_Connection_Stress .. 298 CSTC 002 Client_Connection_Data_Overload_Stress.