Advanced networks

COM-407

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Description

Lab 5

In this lab session, you will explore in a virtual environment the effect of the congestion control mechanism of TCP and compare with a situation without congestion control. You will see what types of fairness are achieved by this congestion control mechanism. You will observe that a congestion control mechanism is also essential to avoid congestion collapse.

Instructions

  • We highly recommend that you use the VDI platform and the COM-407 VM, accessible via your Gaspar account.

  • Inside it, you’ll find a desktop shortcut to Mininet VM.

  • Launch the Mininet VM (password: advnet) and do the lab in there!

  • Your changes will not be saved when you log out of VDI. Please use Google Drive, Git, etc., to save your progress if needed.
  • To fetch the required materials for this lab, open a terminal on your Mininet VM and run:

    git clone https://github.com/nal-epfl/Advanced-Networking-Labs.git

    All the scripts for this lab are located in the 
    Lab 5/
     directory of the cloned repository.
    ⚠️ Important: This repository is read-only for students. Please do not make pull requests or push changes to it. If you need to modify scripts for your experiments, work on your local copy only.