ENTS 640

NETWORKSAND PROTOCOLSI

PROJECT
FALL 2016

Alekhya Dixit, Pulavarthy

UID:115033085
Apeksha Chauhan
UID: 115035027
OVERVIEW/ ABSTRACT
A code for a java application comprising of a client and a server that use Java’s UDP
sockets to send and receive messages is provided. The code also
implementsintegritycheck, timeout andretransmission operations to ensure reliable
communicationwhile using unreliable data transfer services. The server application is to
respond to the client’s request of a particular measurement ID by sending the
corresponding temperature value as stored in the text file.

PROBLEM DEFINITION
Client Program Objectives:
1. To select a random measurement ID from the list of data given in the data.txt file.
2. To generate a random 16-bit unsigned digit which is to be used as a request IDfor an
assembled request message being sent from client to server.
3. The request message needs to be converted into bytes for transmission through UDP
sockets.
4. To integrate a timer function that waits for the response message of the server with
respect to the request message sent (append checksum value) and implements
appropriate error messages and timeout operations.
5. To carry out integrity check operation that calculates checksum for the response
message received from the server and compares it with the actual checksum value
integrated in the response message.
 If no errors, then the program should print the corresponding temperature value
received from the server.
 If errors are detected, the client should respond by printing the appropriate error
message. (Response code)
6. The client keeps running i.e., does the complete request/response sequence until the
application is terminated.

Server Program Objectives:

1. The server application waits for the request message from the client.
2. Consequent to the reception a request message from the client application, the
server needs to implement the integrity check function to calculate the checksum
value of the received request message and then compare it with checksum value
appended to the request message.
  If the syntax checks fail, it should send back an error response with
response code 2.
 If the integrity check operation passes, it should convert the received
message into a character sequence (a String object) and check the syntax
of the request message thoroughly
3. The server should locate the measurement value for the requested measurement
ID. If there is no measurement value for the detected request, then it should
return an error response with response code 3.
4. If there is no error, then the server application is to assemble the response
message with response code 0 including measurement value and the Integrity
check sum value.
5. The assembled response message is to be converted to a byte array suitable for
transmitting through UDP socket to client application.
6. The server application needs to keep running until termination.
FLOWCHART FOR APPLICATION:

No

YES
UML DIAGRAMS
The Client and Server application programs various objectives have been realized by
defining different methods in their classes. This practice aided in integrating various
functions of these applications effectively and efficiently.
CLIENT AND SERVER APPLICATION DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
Client Objectives Analysis:
1. Main Function: call processNewRequest :
 calls the function “readRandomRequestIDfromSource”- i.e, to read a request_ID
 calls processrequest with measurementID as parameter.
o (a) Function: processRequest
 Generate random requestID
 Assemble the request message(without including integrity check)
 Using StringBuilder to add checksum value to the assembled request message.
 Ignoring the spaces by replacing with “null” = requestMessage
o Send requestMessage to the server

2. Function: readRandomRequestIDfromSource
 Using Buffer Reader and Arraylist properties: read and split the line to extract measurementIDs
(store measurement IDs in an array List)
 Use random function to choose one of the measurementIDs.
 Select a random measurement ID from the array list(limited by its size) using random function
and store as String
  Convert measurementID from String to Integer and ID return it.

3. Function: generate RandomRequest ID(16-bit unsigned number range-(0-65535))

 Use Random Function
 Store randomly generated RequestID as “char” – typecast .
 Return the randomly generated requestID number

4. Function: assembleRequestMessage
 Assembling the request messsage using String Builder and using the variables requestID and
mesaurement ID .
 Return request message(will not have checksum yet)

5. Function: sendRequest
 Convert request message appended with checkSum to bytes
 Initialise InetAddress and assign a port number to send the request message to the server
 Start Timer and wait for response message from server
o Set initial timeout to 1000ms(1s)
o And initialise a retry counter to 1 (retry 3 times if the first time fails. And print
according timeout messages)
o Double the timeout interval after every failed attempt
o After 4th attempt transmitter i.e the source should declare communication failure and
print an error message when there is no response rom server.
 Initialise required variables to receive the response of the server. Store in “responseBytes”.
 Close Socket.
6. Function: processResponseBytes – This function is to evaluate the integrity check for the response
message , and compare it with the value supplied in the response message. If not equal it should start
again from creating a random requestID.
 Store the responseMessage in a String.
 Calculate the integrity check value for the response message by passing the string through the
integrityCheck function.
 (a) Create a function : getResponseIntegrityValue
o Extract the checksum value from integrity response
  If expected and actual checkSum values are not equal, call “processRequest” for
retransmission
 (b) Create a function: getResponseCode
o Extract the response code
 (c) Create function: getMeasurementValue : Extract the measurement Value
 Check the value of the response code and print appropriate message
 If response code is not equal to zero, then print a message indicating the particular error and
then ask the user if he/she would like to resend the request if needed.
o Initialise userChoice variable. Read user Input with Scanner function and respond
accordingly.

Server Objectives Analysis:

Server Application Program:
1. The Server Application program has one main () function that initializes a variable to receive the
request message and keeps waiting for the request message from client.
2. The received data is converted to a string format and passes the string to the Server Functions
program that performs required operations.

Sever Application Operations Program:

3. A constructor is defined to receive the request message and is passed to the
responseMessageGeneration method.
4. Method: responsecodeGeneration(String request)
 This method breaks the request message received from the string into <request>, <Id>,
</id>, <measurement>, </measurement>, measurement value and checksum value.
 The function computes the checksum value for the request message (without checksum
value) and compare this value to the one provided in the request string. If the integrity
check passes a thorough syntax check of the received message and passed to the
corresponding responseCodeGeneration method.
 The method checks whether the measurement value is present in the data by calling the
method measurementValueCheck(measurementValue).
o Method: measurementValueCheck(int value): This method checks if the
measurement value is present in the data.txt file or not. If the data is present it
returns the corresponding measurement value. If the data is not found, then an
appropriate error message is printed.
5. Method: responseMessageGeneration performs the following operations:
 It divides the received request message to extract the “requestID”, “measurementID”,
“measurement value/ temperature value” and the “checksum value” from the request
string.
 It then passes the request message to the “responseCodeGeneration” method that returns
the appropriate response code.
 It compares the response code to the appropriate values (0/1/2/3) and generates the
response message according to the table given below:

Response code Meaning

0 OK.The response has been created according to the request.

1 Error:integritycheckfailure. The request has one or more bit

errors.
2 Error:malformed request.The syntax of the request message is not
correct.
3 Error:non-existent measurement. The measurement
with the requested measurementID does not exist.

o For a responseCode of zero, the method passes the measurement value/ temperature
value retrieved from the method temperatureValueCompute.
 Method: temperaturevalueCompute : For responseCode = 0 the method
passes the measurement value retrieved from the request
totemperatureValueCompute(measurementValueInt)function which returns
the value corresponding to the measurement id.
 For any other code value generates a response with the responseCode value only.

6. Other Methods Employed:

 measurementValueCheck: This method returns an integer array containing all the
measurement values.
 temperatureValueCompute: This method computes the temperature value corresponding
to the measurementID.
CLIENT APPLICATION FLOWCHART:

*Refer Client analysis for detailed method implementations

SERVER APPLICATION FLOWCHART
INTEGRITY CHECK FUNCTION FLOWCHART:

False
True

False

True

True

False
 False

True

*Refer Server analysis for detailed method implementations

OUTPUT:
The outputs for various cases are as given below:

i. Receiver Timed out:

ii. Client Response Received:

iii. Server Request Received and response sent:

iv. Syntax incorrect:

v. Measurement Value does not exist

vi. Integrity Check Failure:

vii. Server Side:

viii. File not found exception