README.md

CompComHW2

Computer Communications, Assignment 2.

Analyzes a medium-traffic wireless local area network with packet sniffing in Wireshark.

Contents

Assignment

• assn.pdf: Assignment given in PDF format.

Report

• report.md: First draft of the report written in Markdown.

• report.pages: Page styling in Pages.

• report.pdf: Final report in PDF format. You might better look for this.

PCAP files

Short-burst

• short-burst-1-tcp-80-http-ip.pcap: Captured packets to be analyzed in Wireshark during short-burst.

Long-burst

• long-burst.pcap: Captured packets to be analyzed in Wireshark during long-burst.

CSV files

Short-burst

• short-burst-1-tcp-80: Packets with only tcp:80 filter.

• short-burst-1-tcp-80-http: Packets with tcp:80 and http filters.

• short-burst-1-tcp-80-http-ip: Packets with tcp:80, http and IP address filters.

• short-burst-1-tcp-80-nohttp: Packets with tcp:80 and not http filters.

Long-burst

• long-burst-1-retransmit: Retransmitted packets during long-burst.

Graphs

Short-burst

• rtt-http.png: Round-trip time graph of HTTP transmission.

Long-burst

• long-burst.png: Round-trip time graph of video transmission.

Why there are so many files?

The report is written in Markdown format, and then converted to HTML, which is copied to Pages and reformatted/styled.

In order to show packets in report, filtered results in Wireshark are saved in CSV (comma-seperated values) format and converted to Markdown tables with a formatter.

License

MIT