COMP1609 (2020/21) Network and Faculty Contribution:

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Technology and ID: 25180
Design
Course Leader: Dr OPNET Deadline Date:
Anatolij Bezemskij Coursework Friday
04/12/2020
This coursework should take an average student who is up-to-date with tutorial
work approximately 50 hours

Feedback and grades are normally made available within 15 working days of the
coursework deadline
Learning Outcomes:
A. Demonstrate knowledge of network communication, OSI and TCP/IP model.
B. Demonstrate a critical understanding of top network model with related key
protocols, services and applications.
C. Evaluate common network problems (malfunction, poor performance), adopt a
systematic approach to trouble shooting and resolving the problem.
D. Be competent in the use of tools designed to analyse and simulate network
functionality.

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 Coursework Submission Requirements
An electronic copy of your work for this coursework must be fully uploaded by Deadline
Date of Friday 04/12/2020 using the link on the coursework Moodle page for COMP1609.
For this coursework you must submit a single PDF document. In general, any text in the
document must not be an image (i.e. must not be scanned) and would normally be generated
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 The coursework detailed specification:
This is an individual assessment. Your investigation should not be shared among other
students.
The objective of the coursework is to simulate a client-server model communication over an
IP network and to investigate an application and network performance in multiple provided
scenarios.
This assessment requires to use OPNET simulator.
The network architecture overview:
A company’s headquarters is in Manchester, UK. They have recently opened regional offices
in Chicago, USA and Sydney, Australia. The main service provided by the Chicago and
Sydney offices will be gathered and distribute monthly and annual reports describing sales
handled by the headquarters in Manchester, UK. The company has decided to perform a
simulation in case if they will expand with an additional call centre.
Manchester HQ LAN: The network is undefined and needs to be designed by the student
with justifications, this implies justification of number of nodes, user profiles and application
profiles.
Chicago office LAN: It consists of 35 users connected to 100baseT switch, Local printer,
Email (heavy). They are connected to the Internet via T1 line. Some applications run by users
including printer and database (heavy) are local and others like web browsing (light-Http)
and FTP (heavy) are supported remotely, in Manchester, UK. Additionally, 8 users run
online video conferencing application with all supported services.
Sydney Office LAN: It consists of 25 users connected to 10baseT switch, Local printer,
Email (heavy). They are connected to the Internet via a T1 line. Some applications run by
users including printer (light) and database (heavy) are local and others like web browsing
(heavy-Http) and FTP (light) are supported remotely, in Manchester, UK. Additionally, 8
users run online voice and video conferencing applications.
Call centre Office LAN: It would consist of 15 users connected to 100baseT switch, Local
printer, Email (light). They are connected to the Internet via a T1 line. Some applications run
by users including printer (light) and database (light) are local and others like web browsing
(heavy-Http) and FTP (light) are supported remotely, in Manchester, UK. All users run
online voice and video conferencing applications with Sydney Office.

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 The tasks:
The objective is to perform a group literature research and individually build a Riverbed
simulation model based on the network architecture given and evaluate the behaviour of
network parameters gained by simulating the use cases. The design, implementation and
simulation discussion imply the inclusion of graphs and justification of made decisions or the
results achieved through the simulation.
1. Perform literature research on the technologies that used in modern enterprise
networks. These technologies are Distributed Denial of Service Protection, Load
Balancing and Cloud Virtualization. There are multiple providers of such services,
some examples, Amazon AWS, CloudFlare and Akamai Technologies. Critically
discuss these technologies concerning the scalability and transparency of
communication, providing examples. Identify two or more commercial risks arising
due to the failure of such cloud services. The discussion should be documented and
should be approximately 700 words. The group should consist of two roles: risk
assessor and upgrade engineer. The upgrade engineer has to review the technologies
from a benefit point of view, whilst risk assessor evaluates the potential threats.
[GROUP TASK]
2. Design, implement and simulate your model in the OPNET simulator guided by the
given network architecture overview. The design requires detailed documentation on
the application and performance settings in the OPNET simulator for each user and
these settings justifications. Following the implementation, you are required to
simulate your scenario for 20 minutes. [INDIVIDUAL TASK]
3. The documentation must contain subnetting schemes for each LAN. Note: You are
NOT required to configure Riverbed to use subnets. You must provide the
following: Network Address, Broadcast Address, Usable Addresses, and IP Address
assignments to hosts. You must use at least two classes from Private Address Space.
4. Investigate the behavior of the network performance in a variety of cases. The
analysis must be done regarding your expectations. Discuss the scenario and
hypothesize on the possible outcomes of provided use-cases followed by the analysis
of the results that were received from the simulation. [INDIVIDUAL TASK]
You must review the following:
2.1. Utilization of a T1 link.
2.2. Average FTP download response time
2.3. HTTP page response time.
2.4. Behavior of voice and video applications
2.5. Ethernet delay
2.6. Simulate the following use-case: The new call center office
will communicate with Chicago and Sydney offices. It is
planned that 10 users will communicate with the Sydney office
and 5 users will communicate with the Chicago office. All
offices will communicate via video conferencing application.
Investigate the behavior of video conferencing application.
2.7. Evaluate the network performance in a use-case, where you
would introduce at least one of the improvements that you
have identified.

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 Note:
Perform the analysis of the results starting from the first minute. This should be done, to
reduce the noise from the data caused by the initialization of network devices such as
routers and switches which may have impact on your investigation.
The group assessment can be done in groups of 2.

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 Deliverables:
A well structure report, which must include the following:
• A literature review on the technologies that are used in a provided network
architecture and the benefits of usage of cloud services. Refer to Task 1.
• Description of the designed and implemented scenarios, including the justifications
for the design and choice of performance parameters. Refer to Task 2.
• Documentation on the investigation of required features and use-cases, including
graphs and analysis of the results of simulation. Refer to Task 3 and its sub-
categories.
• Based on the results; recommend your choice of consideration to improve the network
model.
• A critical reflection, which is evaluative and reflective.

Assessment Criteria:
1. Review of technologies and cloud services discussion. 15%
2. Justified design and simulation of a network architecture and application models. 20%
3. Investigation and analysis of the results. 30%
4. Recommendation of your choice for improvement of network architecture. 20%
5. Critical reflection 15%

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 Grading Criteria:
>80% Excellent Evidence of in-depth understanding, detailed investigation
and analytical explanation of the results, critical and
evaluative conclusion. Analysis must include graphical
representation of the results and any relevant network
diagrams, and identification of trends in the data. All sections
completed to an excellent standard.

>70% Good Evidence of clear understanding, good analysis of the results

and some critical and justified evaluation in the conclusion.
Analysis must include graphical representation of the results
and any relevant network diagrams, and identification of
trends in the data. All sections are completed to a consistently
good standard.

>60% Average Evidence of understanding of the networking fundamentals,

some results attained and presented. Correct but not very
detailed analysis, limited evaluation (but there must be some),
all sections attempted and provided.

>45% Pass Limited data samples and results, shallow analysis or

evaluation. Some essential elements may be missing. The
provided documentation must be reasonably correct.
Conclusions must be included and must be justifiable.
<45% Poor A poorly written report without the structure. The essential
elements are missing, insufficient data samples. Little or no
evidence of having devised or carried out a research and the
experiments. Little evidence of understanding, poor or
incorrect analysis or the conclusion.

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