--- title: 'White Papers' url: 'https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers' markdown: 'https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers.md' date: '2026-09-23' description: "White Papers The Surprisingly Arcane Art of Sending Data on the Internet Why You Shouldn't Believe Network Speed Tests Network Considerations for Remote Vehicle Operation Latency poses some unique problems with remote operation of moving vehicles; low-latency 5G does not solve the problem.…" taxonomy: category: - WhitePapers - Searchable --- # White Papers ![Portrait of a man writing in his Study](https://networkreporter.com/user/pages/03.articles/05.white-papers/portrait-of-a-man-writing-in-his-study-512x411.jpg "Portrait of a man writing in his Study") ## White Papers - [The Surprisingly Arcane Art of Sending Data on the Internet](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/pushing-bits) - [Why You Shouldn't Believe Network Speed Tests](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/no-believe-speed-tests) - [Network Considerations for Remote Vehicle Operation](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/remote-operation) Latency poses some unique problems with remote operation of moving vehicles; low-latency 5G does not solve the problem. - [Network Protocol Testing Overview](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/testing-overview) Learn about the categories of network testing and determine how to apply the right ones to your testing effort. - [Limitations of ICMP Echo for Network Measurement](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/limitations-of-icmp-echo) ICMP Echo, more commonly known as "ping" is not a valid tool for measuring network distance or perform - [Does IPERF Tell White Lies?](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/iperf-white-lies) Does Iperf significantly under report the actual bandwidth of the link? - [Emulating 3G/4G Networks](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/emulating-3g4g) Today, more than ever, applications need to be prepared to run over mobile infrastructure. Learn about the characteristics that impact application performance and recommended testing. - [Understanding How Applications Perform](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/understanding-performance) on the Network How do apps perform on the network under adverse conditions? Trial deployments are expensive and yield limited data. Learn how to properly characterize your application or device performance prior to deployment. - [Causes and Correlation of Network Impairments](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/causes-and-correlation) Learn how ARP cache timeouts and leaky VLANS (among other things) create delay, loss, jitter, and more to packets as they traverse the network. - [Are you Allocating your Test Resources Correctly?](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/allocating-test-resources) Finding and fixing software defects constitutes the largest expense for the software industry. See why line speed testing isn’t enough and the importance of functional testing! - [Rate Limitation vs. Bandwidth Limitation](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/rate-vs-bandwidth-limit) Not the same thing! Reduced bandwidth link emulation is a technique used in a lab to evaluate how a network application behaves when its packets traverse a slow link. - [Counting Bits](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/counting-bits) The question of “how many bits” were sent and received clearly is a matter of interest when measuring data rates or data quantities. The answer is surprisingly complicated. - [Towards Useful Network Management](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/useful-network-mgmt) This is a paper we wrote in 1996. In it, we considered new concepts and capabilities in network management. These range from incremental enhancements of the current state of affairs to wild-eyed dreaming. Many of these ideas are still (in 2018) unrealized. - [KNMP Overview](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/knmp-overview) This is a paper we wrote in 2010. This was a thought piece about a protocol to replace SNMP that would address many of the issues with SNMP. The result is KNMP. KNMP can be orders of magnitude faster than SNMP, is able to perform "safe sets", and obtains protection using familiar SSL/TLS mechanisms. KNMP largely preserves the form and semantics of existing MIBs. IWL created a proof-of-concept implementation in Python. --- ## Navigation - Next: [Blog](https://networkreporter.com/articles/blog.md) - Children: - [Pushing Bits: The Surprisingly Arcane Art of Sending Data on the Internet](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/pushing-bits.md) - [Why You Shouldn't Believe Network Speed Tests](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/no-believe-speed-tests.md) - [Remote Vehicle Operation](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/remote-operation.md) - [Network Protocol Testing Overview](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/testing-overview.md) - [Limitations of ICMP Echo for Network Measurement](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/limitations-of-icmp-echo.md) - [Does IPERF Tell White Lies?](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/iperf-white-lies.md) - [Emulating 3G/4G Networks for Realistic Testing](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/emulating-3g4g.md) - [Understanding Performance of Your App on any Network](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/understanding-performance.md) - [Causes and Correlation of Network Impairments](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/causes-and-correlation.md) - [Are You Allocating Your Test Resources Correctly?](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/allocating-test-resources.md) - [Rate Limitation vs. Bandwidth Limitation](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/rate-vs-bandwidth-limit.md) - [KNMP Overview](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/knmp-overview.md) - [Counting Bits](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/counting-bits.md) - [Towards Useful Network Management](https://networkreporter.com/articles/white-papers/useful-network-mgmt.md)