Purpose of the
assessment
(with ULO
Mapping)
This assignment is designed to develop deeper analytical understanding of
different distributed network conditions. At the completion of this assessment
students should be able to:
d. Analyse performance and deployment issues for networked applications;
e. Compare appropriate industry tools and techniques to manage
networked applications;
Weight 20%
Total Marks 80
Word limit 2000
Due Date 02/02/2018 11:55PM (Week 11 Friday)
Submission
Guidelines
 All work must be submitted on Moodle by the due date along with a title
Page.
 The assignment must be in MS Word format, 1.5 spacing, 11-pt Calibri (Body)
font and 2.54 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate
section headings.
 Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed
appropriately at the end in a reference list using IEEE referencing style.
Extension  If an extension of time to submit work is required, a Special Consideration
Application must be submitted directly on AMS. You must submit this
application three working days prior to the due date of the assignment.
Further information is available at:
http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policiesprocedures-and-guidelines/specialconsiderationdeferment
Academic
Misconduct
 Academic Misconduct is a serious offence. Depending on the seriousness of
the case, penalties can vary from a written warning or zero marks to exclusion
from the course or rescinding the degree. Students should make themselves
familiar with the full policy and procedure available at:
http://www.mit.edu.au/about-mit/institute-publications/policiesprocedures-and-guidelines/Plagiarism-Academic-Misconduct-PolicyProcedure
For further information, please refer to the Academic Integrity
Section in your Unit Description.
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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. This exercises
provide an opportunity to demonstrate analytical ability of evaluating distributed systems performance,
Quality of Service and service management.
Overview and General Instructions of Assignment
Each student will need to work on an assigned set of websites and capture packets on their home network.
The students are assigned the set of websites based on their MIT ID from Table 1. The set of websites include
a website of a news channel and a website for live streaming. The students are required to capture packets of
multiple images from the news channel website and capture packets from the live stream website while
streaming for 10 minutes on their home network.
Table 1: Website Allocation
Sno. Website Assigned Last digit of MIT ID
1 http://www.news.com.au 0 and 9
http:// iview.abc.net.au
2 http://www.nzherald.co.nz 1 and 8
https://www.9now.com.au/live/channel-9
3 https://www.newsroom.co.nz 2 and 7
https://tenplay.com.au/
4 http://tv.australiaplus.com/ 3 and 6
https://7live.com.au/
5 http://www.radionz.co.nz/news 4 and 5
https://www.skynews.com.au
The complete report must be submitted on Moodle within due date. The report has following four main
parts:
Part 1:
The first part of the report should be about general statistics of both captures using Wireshark that must
include:
1. Time of capture
2. Total number of captured packets
3. IP addresses of the client and server
4. Description of the capturing device
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 from part 1. 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:
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1. Throughput
2. Round Trip Time
3. Load Distribution
4. Warnings and errors
5. TCP retransmissions
Part 3:
The third part of the report is about comparing the collected Wireshark statistics of two different types of
networked applications and providing reasons for those differences. The graphs and statistics showing
different performance aspects of web page transfer and live streaming (provided in part 2) need to be
compared with each other. The differences of the performance to be identified and reasons must be provided
for such differences.
Part 4:
Students need to download, install, use and compare another free network performance measurement tool
from the Internet on their home computer. One possible option is Microsoft Message Analyzer from
https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=44226. The tool should be used to analyse the
network traffic captured while accessing one of the news websites mentioned in Table 1. The chosen tool
should be compared with Wireshark on thehttps://www.precisionessays.com/in/project basis of following criteria:
1. Ease of access and use: how easy it is to download, install and start using (any changes to be made
to the system etc.) as compared to Wireshark
2. GUI: Compare at least four GUI features of the chosen tool with Wireshark
3. Visualisation of traffic: After capturing packets by the chosen tool the effectiveness of the
visualisation of the network traffic should be compared with Wireshark.
4. Statistics generation: At least two type of statistics like throughput, RTT etc. needs to be generated
by the chosen tool and are to be compared with statistics generation ability of Wireshark.
5. Details of HTTP: The details of HTTP traffic provided by the chosen tool should be compared with
Wireshark.
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Marking criteria:
Section to be included in
the report
Description of the section Marks
Introduction Outline of the assignment
Overall structure of the report
5
General Statistics For each capture following should be discussed:
1. Time of capture
2. Total number of captured packets
3. Device at which the files were captured
4. Average bytes/sec
8
Network Performance Screenshots and analysis of the following:
1. Throughput
2. Round Trip Time
3. Load Distribution
4. Warnings and errors
5. TCP retransmissions
5 * 4 = 20
Comparison 1 Comparison of the graphs and statistic of both websites
using Wireshark and discussion of the reasons for the
difference.
10 + 10 =20
Comparison 2 Comparison of the chosen tool with Wireshark in terms
of:
1. Ease of access and use
2. GUI
3. Visualisation of traffic
4. Statistics generation
5. Details of HTTP
5 * 4 = 20
Conclusion Complete summary of the report specially the
comparison.
5
Reference style Follow IEEE reference style. 2
Total 80
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Marking Rubric for Assignment #1: Total Marks 80
Grade
Mark
HD
> 80%
DI
70-79%
CR
60-69%
P
50-59%
Fail
< 50%
Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Unsatisfactory
Introduction
/5
Clear and concise
outline is provided,
report structure is
described properly
Clear outline is
provided, report
structure is
described.
Some outline is
provided, report
structure is
somewhat
discussed
Some outline is
provided,.
This is no
relevance to the
assignment
topic.
General
Statistics
/8
All required aspects
are discussed
exceptionally well
All required
aspects are
discussed
Some aspects are
discussed
Very few aspects
are discussed
Not related
Network
Performance
/20
All five required
matters are analysed
in detail and
exceptionally well, All
screen shots are
clear and complete
Most of the
required matters
are analysed in
detail , All screen
shots are clear
and complete
Some required
matters are
analysed in detail
and , Some
screen shots are
clear and
complete
Few of the
required matters
are analysed
Not related
or/and
incomplete
Comparison 1
/20
In detail comparison
is provided and
justification is given
exceptionally well
Some comparison
is provided and
justification given
Some comparison
is provided and
incomplete
justification is
there
Comparison and
justification is
incomplete
Not related
and/or
incomplete
Comparison 2
/20
In detail comparison
is provided and
justification is given
exceptionally well
Some comparison
is provided and
justification given
Some comparison
is provided and
incomplete
justification is
there
Comparison and
justification is
incomplete
Not related
and/or
incomplete
Conclusion
/5
Logic is clear and
easy to follow with
strong arguments
Consistency
logical and
convincing
Mostly consistent
logical and
convincing
Adequate
cohesion and
conviction
Argument is
confused and
disjointed
Reference
style
/2
Clear styles with
excellent source of
references.
Clear referencing
style
Generally good
referencing style
Sometimes clear
referencing style
Lacks
consistency with
many errors

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