Nt1310 Unit 1 Lab Report

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Table of Contents I. Summary 2 II. Objective 2 III. Implementation 2 IV. Results 3 V. Questions and Answers 4 VI. Conclusion 7 Summary Lab 1 demonstrates the capabilities of congestion control algorithms implemented by Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). It provides three scenarios to simulate these algorithms and will later compare the results. A state variable known as congestion window is implemented by the TCP protocol which stops the clogging of the network by regulating and putting a limit on the data that is sent on the network in turn reducing congestion, timeouts and lost packets. Other than this there are other features like slow start, the fast re transmission and rapid recovery also discussed in the Lab. Slow start makes …show more content…

Answer: - As we saw in the lab simulation runs, Segment Sequence Number remains unchanged as indicated by the horizontal line because of the congestion caused by packet drops, which in turn causes timeouts which leads to drop in the graph, that causes the congestion window to decreases in size when timeouts are detected, timeouts are due to 0.5% packet drop in IP cloud. 2) Analyze the graph that compares the Segment Sequence numbers of the three scenarios. Why does the Drop_NoFast scenario have the slowest growth in sequence numbers? Answer: Drop_NoFast scenario has the slowest growth in sequence numbers since it has 0.5% of packet drop and even fast retransmit is turned off in the TCP settings. Therefore there are several timeouts in the connection and usually one big timeout period occurs before transmission of packet again. But due to fast retransmit turned on, only 3 round trips of time occurs before a packet is retransmitted so there is a faster recovery. 3) In the Drop_NoFast scenario, obtain the overlaid graph that compares Sent Segment Sequence Number with Received Segment ACK Number for Server_West. Explain the graph.

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