1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
3.1 Terms defined elsewhere
3.2 Terms defined in this Recommendation
4 Abbreviations and acronyms
5 Conventions
6 DPI performance model and categorizations
6.1 DPI performance model
6.2 Categorization based on the type of performance metric
6.3 Categorization based on functional planes and DPI node
7 Summary and formal template for performance metric specifications
7.1 Summary of performance metrics
7.2 Formal template for performance metric specifications
8 DPI specific user plane performance metrics
8.1 DPI node-internal transfer delay metric
8.2 DPI packet processing rate metric
8.3 DPI error rate metric
8.4 DPI rate of successfully identified packets metric
8.5 DPI inspection depth metric
8.6 Protocol-specific performance metrics
8.7 DPI number of supported application tags metric
8.8 DPI DPI-PIB size at the line rate metric
9 DPI specific performance metrics for the control plane
9.1 DPI rule take effect time metric
9.2 DPI failover time metric
9.3 DPI node deployment time metric
9.4 DPI redundancy data synchronization time metric
10 DPI specific performance metrics for management plane
10.1 DPI NMS response time metric
10.2 DPI supported concurrent NMS number metric
10.3 DPI NMS DPI rule number written per second metric
10.4 NMS DPI rule age report time metric
11 DPI specific performance metrics for DPI nodes
11.1 DPI power per bit metric
11.2 DPI power per packet metric
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