taxonomies to categorize the tests under definition where possible, because these tests must tie in to phenomena that arise in actual networks. We avail ourselves of, or may extend, this terminology as necessary for this purpose.
A route can be changed implicitly by replacing it with another route or explicitly by withdrawal followed by the introduction of a new route. In either case, the change may be an actual change, no change, or a duplicate. The notation and definition of individual categorizable route change events is adopted from [INSTBLTY] and given below.
1. AADiff: Implicit withdrawal of a route and replacement by a route different in some path attribute.
2. AADup: Implicit withdrawal of a route and replacement by route that is identical in all path attributes.
3. WADiff: Explicit withdrawal of a route and replacement by a different route.
4. WADup: Explicit withdrawal of a route and replacement by a route that is identical in all path attributes.
To apply this taxonomy in the benchmarking context, we need terms to describe the sequence of events from the update train perspective, as listed above, and event indications in the time domain in order to measure activity from the perspective of the DUT. With this in mind, we incorporate and extend the definitions of [INSTBLTY] to the following:
1. Tup (TDx): Route advertised to the DUT by Test Device x
2. Tdown(TDx): Route being withdrawn by Device x
3. Tupinit(TDx): The initial announcement of a route to a unique prefix
4. TWF(TDx): Route fail over after an explicit withdrawal.
But we need to take this a step further. Each of these events can involve a single route, a "short" packet train, or a "full" routing table. We further extend the notation to indicate how many routes