MN504 Networked Application Management
Question:
Purpose
This assignment is designed to develop deeper analytical understanding of different distributed network conditions. At the completion of this assessment
Learning outcomes
1. Analyse performance and deployment issues for networked applications;
2. Compare appropriate industry tools and techniques to manage networked applications;
Assignment Description
The aim of the assignment is to develop an analytical understanding of performance and management of different types of networked applications. The assignment will provide an opportunity to understand network performance and management issues of networked applications using state of the art tools. These exercises provide an opportunity to demonstrate analytical ability of evaluating distributed systems performance, Quality of Service and service management.
The report has following four main parts:
Part 1:
The first part of the report should be about general statistics of all captures using Wireshark that must include for each student:
1. Start time of capture
2. Total number of captured packets for each protocol
3. Total Number of lost packets
4. IP addresses of the client and server
Part 2:
The second part of the report must include screen shots of packet capture, screenshots of different statistics from Wireshark and complete analysis of those screenshots for both websites for all three networks. Only screenshots of the graphs or other statistics will not get any marks as those must be analysed in detail to discuss the quality of service for a particular application. The students are required to analyse the network performance for the assigned websites considering following aspects:
1. Throughput
2. Round Trip Time
3. Packet Loss
While collecting statistics please make sure, you are looking at the right flow as your Wireshark file may have packets from other applications and flows as well. Figure 1 on next page shows the throughput graph generated by Wireshark and source and destination addresses are clearly shown. You need to collect statistics for flows which are from server to client.
