Applications and results from testing performance of sending and receiving image data using the DICOM standard

The applications make use of the DCMTK libraries (https://dicom.offis.de/dcmtk.php.en) version 3.6.1_20160630 to implement the DICOM standard
System activity data given in the results was recorded using the SYSSTAT utilities version 11.6.0 (http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/)

Image data used to conduct these tests was taken from the PROSTATE-DIAGNOSIS collection (DOI: 10.7937/K9/TCIA.2015.FOQEUJVT) of the Cancer Imaging Archive (DOI: 10.1007/s10278-013-9622-7)

Application source code:-
    rcvspdtest_v1_3.cpp - application to retrieve image data at the study-level from the PACS
    rcvspdtest_v2_0.cpp - application to retrieve image data at the series-level from the PACS
    sndspdtest_v1_1.cpp - application to insert image data at the study-level in the PACS
    sndspdtest_v2_0.cpp - application to insert image data at the series-level in the PACS
    series_list.h - header file for rcvspdtest_v2_0 and sndspdtest_v2_0 that implements an array of the series instance UIDs of the 50 randomly selected series used to measure performance by these applications
    study_list.h - header file for rcvspdtest_v1_3 and sndspdtest_v1_1 that implements an array of the study instance UIDs of the 50 randomly selected studies used to measure performance by these applications
    
Each application was executed on four platforms:-
    1. Avnet ZedBoard
    2. Xilinx ZCU102
    3. A desktop computer using an Intel Core i7-6700K quad core at 4GHz, 32GB of memory and a hard disk drive (HDD)
    4. A desktop computer using an Intel Core i7-6700K quad core at 4GHz, 32GB of memory and an SD card
    
Results:-
    rcvspdtest_v1_3_results.zip - archive containing results obtained running rcvspdtest_v1_3.cpp application
    rcvspdtest_v2_0_results.zip - archive containing results obtained running rcvspdtest_v2_0.cpp application
    sndspdtest_v1_1_results.zip - archive containing results obtained running sndspdtest_v1_1.cpp application
    sndspdtest_v2_0_results.zip - archive containing results obtained running sndspdtest_v2_0.cpp application
    
    Each archive contains a separate sub-directory for each of the platforms tested.
    Within each sub-directory there are five text files containing the results:-
        transfer_times.txt - contains the timestamp for the beginning of each transfer, the series or study instance UID for the data transferred and the time measured by the application to complete the transfer in seconds. Values are separated using the ", " characters. The timestamps recorded allow this data to be registered with the other data recorded.
        cpu.stat - contains the CPU utilisation data recorded by the SYSSTAT software. Values are separated using the ";" character. The timestamps recorded allow this data to be registered with the other data recorded. Further details on the data recorded by the SYSSTAT data can be found on the SYSSTAT webpage (http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/).
        io.stat - contains the I/O utilisation data recorded by the SYSSTAT software. Values are separated using the ";" character. The timestamps recorded allow this data to be registered with the other data recorded. Further details on the data recorded by the SYSSTAT data can be found on the SYSSTAT webpage (http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/). The following partitions were used by the applications:-
            ZedBoard - dev179-2
            ZCU102 - dev179-2
            desktop with HDD - dev8-17
            desktop with SD card - dev8-50
        mem.stat - contains the memory utilisation data recorded by the SYSSTAT software. Values are separated using the ";" character. The timestamps recorded allow this data to be registered with the other data recorded. Further details on the data recorded by the SYSSTAT data can be found on the SYSSTAT webpage (http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/).
        net.stat - contains the network interface utilisation data recorded by the SYSSTAT software. Values are separated using the ";" character. The timestamps recorded allow this data to be registered with the other data recorded. Further details on the data recorded by the SYSSTAT data can be found on the SYSSTAT webpage (http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/).