Results Summary

The following paragraphs summarize the results obtained above. Results indicate that EMSD compares very favorably to other message transfer mechanisms.

Table 2: Comparison of Submission Traffic overhead for EMSD and SMTP

	EMSD	SMTP
Total number of IP packets	3	24
Total IP bytes	307	1886
Total MSG length	206	437
(mail hdr+ mail body)
Total overhead	101	1449

Table 3: Comparison of Delivery Traffic Overhead for EMSD, SMTP, IMAP and POP

	EMSD	SMTP	IMAP	POP
Total number of IP packets	3	24	36	34
Total IP bytes	387	1778	3593	2731
Total MSG length	299	301	833	561
(mail hdr+ mail body)
Total overhead	88	1477	2760	2170

Figure 3: Packets Per Delivery