Assignment DescriptionThe aim of the assignment is to develop an analytical understanding of performance and management ofdifferent types of networked applications. The assignment will provide an oppo

Assignment DescriptionThe aim of the assignment is to develop an analytical understanding of performance and management ofdifferent types of networked applications. The assignment will provide an opportunity to understand networkperformance and management issues of networked applications using state of the art tools. These exercisesprovide an opportunity to demonstrate analytical ability of evaluating distributed systems performance,Quality of Service and service management.Overview and General Instructions of AssignmentStudents need to form a group of two in their own lab class and inform tutor about their group during Week8 Lab. Each group will need to capture packets on two networks, at their home network and at MIT networkwhile accessing the following websites. One website is of a news channel and the other one is a website forlive streaming. The students are required to capture packets of multiple images from the news channelwebsite and capture packets from the live stream website while streaming for 10 minutes once at MIT in agroup and then on their home network individually. So at the end, there will be four trace files, two for eachwebsite, two captured on MIT network and two on students’ home networks. The websites to access are:http://www.lightfm.com.auhttp:// iview.abc.net.auThe complete report must be submitted on Moodle within due date. The report has following four mainparts:Part 1:The first part of the report should be about general statistics of all four captures using Wireshark that mustinclude:1. Start time of capture2. Total number of captured packets for each protocol3. Total Number of lost packets4. IP addresses of the client and serverPart 2:The second part of the report must include screen shots of packet capture, screenshots of different statisticsfrom Wireshark and complete analysis of those screenshots for both websites for all two networks. Onlyscreenshots of the graphs or other statistics will not get any marks as those must be analysed in detail todiscuss the quality of service for a particular application. The students are required to analyse the networkperformance for the assigned websites considering following aspects:1. Throughput2. Round Trip Time3. Packet LossWhile collecting statistics please make sure, you are looking at the right flow as your Wireshark file may havepackets from other applications and flows as well. Figure 1 on next page shows the throughput graphgenerated by Wireshark and source and destination addresses are clearly shown. You need to collect statisticsfor flows which are from server to client.MN504 Networked Application Management Assignment 2 Page 3 of 5Prepared by: Dr S M Farhad Moderated by: Dr Imran Ali Jokhio March 2019Figure 1: Throughput Graph showing source and destination IP addressesTo see the Packet loss you need to enter the following filter in Wireshark:tcp.analysis.lost_SegmentPart 3:The third part of the report is about comparing the collected Wireshark statistics of the two differentnetworked applications on two different networks. The throughput graphs and TCP retransmission statisticsfor web page transfer and live streaming (provided in part 2) need to be compared with each other and for alltwo networks. The differences of the performance to be identified and reasons must be provided for suchdifferences.Part 4:Students need to download, install, use and compare another free network performance measurement toolfrom the Internet on their home computer. One possible option is Microsoft Message Analyser fromhttps://www.microsoft.com/en‐au/download/details.aspx?id=44226. The tool should be used to analyse thenetwork traffic captured while accessing one of the news websites mentioned in Table 1. The chosen toolshould be compared with Wireshark on the basis of following criteria:1. Ease of access and use: how easy it is to download, install and start using (any changes to be madeto the system etc.) as compared to Wireshark2. GUI: Compare at least four GUI features of the chosen tool with WiresharkMN504 Networked Application Management Assignment 2 Page 4 of 5Prepared by: Dr S M Farhad Moderated by: Dr Imran Ali Jokhio March 20193. Visualisation of traffic: After capturing packets by the chosen tool the effectiveness of thevisualisation of the network traffic should be compared with Wireshark.4. Statistics generation: At least one statistics like throughput, RTT etc. needs to be generated by thechosen tool and to be compared with the same generated by Wireshark.The comparison must include screenshots for both tools (your chosen tool and Wireshark) to judge thevalidity of the comparison.Marking criteria:Section to be included inthe reportDescription of the section MarksIntroduction Outline of the assignmentOverall structure of the report4General Statistics For each capture following should be discussed:1. Time of capture2. Total number of captured packets3. IP addresses of client and server9Network Performance Screenshots and analysis of the following:1. Throughput2. Round Trip Time3. Packet Loss5 x 3 = 15Comparison 1 Comparison of the throughput and TCP retransmissionsof both applications on two networks and discussion ofthe reasons for the difference.5 x 3 = 15Comparison 2 Comparison of the chosen tool with Wireshark in termsof:1. Ease of access and use2. GUI3. Visualisation of traffic4. Statistics generationThe screenshots for both tools should be provided3 x 4 = 12Conclusion Complete summary of the report