Assignment 1 Network Design and Performance

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Due Date: 5 pm, September 18, 2015.

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Introduction to Riverbed OPNET Modeler

Objective
This assignment teaches the basics of using Riverbed OPNET Modeler. OPNETs user-friendly interface
with drag-and-drop features enable students to effectively model, manage and troubleshoot real-world
network infrastructures.
You will learn to create a new project and get familiar with the project editor. You will learn to create
different scenarios and learn to simulate and capare results for different scenarios.
Remember that the exercise may have been created for an earlier version of Opnet. There may be
slight changes in the menus and options.

Overview
OPNET provides a Virtual Network Environment that models the behaviour of networks, including its
routers, switches, protocols, servers, and individual applications. The Virtual Network Environment allows
IT managers, network and system planners, and operations staff to more effectively diagnose difficult
problems, validate changes before they are implemented, and plan for future scenarios such as traffic
growth and network failures.

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You can do what if analyses (called scenarios in OPNET) on network designs, just as you can on
spreadsheets with financial business models. However, instead of looking at bottom line financial
numbers, you will be looking at how response times, latency (delays) and other network performance
measures will change under different network design approaches.
To create a network simulation (called a project in OPNET), you specify the nodes (computers, switches,
routers, etc.) in your network, the links between nodes, and the applications that will be running on the
nodes.
In this lab you will learn to built a simple network with a few user clients, some swithces and servers. You
will learn how to configure each device and run the simultations. You will also learn how to collect results
and ananlyse the obtained resutls.
NOTE 2: Do not go and change anything in the process model. Your models will stop compiling

Lab Instructions
Step 1: Design and Configure the basic network
OPNET consists of projects and scenarios. Scenarios may contain different versions of the same network
or models of different networks. A project consists of one or more network scenarios. In this lab, you will
create 2 different scenarios comparing application performance with different connection speeds.
1. Click Start OPNET modeler
2. You will see the license agreement Accept it
3. You will now see the modeler.

4. To create a new project click on File New.You will see the following dialog box.

5. Select Project and Press ok.

6. You project editor workspace will open now. Enter project name as LAB0 and change scenario
name to slow_scenario

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7. From the next dialog box, select Create empty scenario and press Next

8. From the next dialog box, select Campus and press Next

9. Dont change the size, just press Next.

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10. Dont select any technology, just press Next.

11. The setup is complete. Press Finish

12. You will now be able to see the object palette and the Project workspace
13. Select and Ethernet Workstation for the object palette and put it on the workspace

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14. Now construct the following network. Use 10BaseT links to connect the devices. Set appropriate
names for the devices.

15. Now configure the applications and the profiles.

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16. Now add the services to the server and add the profile to the client

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17. Choose the statistics that you want to collect. Right click on the empty workspace and select
Choose individual DES statistics. Choose the client HTTP, Server HTTP, IP from the Node
Statistics and the point-to-point statistics from the Link Statistics

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18. Now Run the Simulation. Do not change any simulation parameters. This may take some time.
Press Close after the simulation completes.
Click on this icon to run the simulation:
19. Now check your results. To see you results click on DES Results View Results or you can
do Right Click on the workspace view results.
Answer the following questions:

Setp 1: In scenario 1
1. Copy the scenario 1 that you created.

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2. Copy and paste the graph that you obtained for the average Object response time and page
response time for Client 1. Why is the Page response time more than the object response time?
Answer: Object Response Time (sec) Specifies response time for each inlined object from the
HTML page
Page Response Time (sec) Specifies time required to retrieve the entire page with all the
contained inline objects. So page response time is more than object because it is comparatively
larger than object.

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3. Copy paste the graph for the load on the server, task processing time, traffic received and traffic
sent. Explain the graphs keeping in mind the type of application used.
Answer: The graph below shows the load, task processing time, traffic sent, traffic received on the server
which is http hence the amount of load going on the server, traffic received on the http server and traffic
sent has been simulated on opnet.

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4.

Record the queuing delay and utilization of the link. Explain the graph (paste a copy). Why do
you see two records of the utilization of the link? Why are they different?
Answer There are two records of utilization because one is for switch to server when data is
coming in and other when data is going out and both need to be different because both the cases
the processed data is different and hence we see the variation in graphs

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Step 2: Configure the Link to 100BaseT

In the previous scenario, we had use 10BaseT for the links. Now we have to create a new scenario.
1. Click on Scenarios Duplicate Scenarios
2. Add the new name: Fast_Scenario
3. Now change the links to 100BaseT
4. Run the simulation and compare the results with the previous scenario. You can you DES
Results Compare Results
5. Answer questions 2, 3 and 4 from scenario 1 when you replace the link? Is there a need to
replace the link explain?
Answer : Yes there is a need to change it because we see a difference in the response time of the
graphs.
Ques2: Copy and paste the graph that you obtained for the average Object response time and
page response time for Client 1. Why is the Page response time more than the object response
time?

Object Response Time

Page Response Time

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Ques3: Copy paste the graph for the load on the server, task processing time, traffic received
and traffic sent. Explain the graphs keeping in mind the type of application used.

Load On Server

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Task Processing Time

Traffic Received

Traffic Sent

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Combined

Ques4: Record the queuing delay and utilization of the link. Explain the graph (paste a copy).
Why do you see two records of the utilization of the link? Why are they different?
Queuing Delay

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Utilization

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Step 3: Extend the network
Add one more client and one more server. Configure the server as an Email server. Client 2 should
access both email and web services. This will require creating a new profile which supports both services
and assiging this profile to Client 2.
Create two scenarios again, for 10Base T and 100Base T. Compare the Web Response times and Email
response times for the two scenarios.
6. Copy paste the graphs from scenario 3. Label the scenarios appropriately

7. Answer questions 2, 3 and 4 from scenario 1. Compare with the results that you obtained from
sceanrio 1 and sceanrio 2
Ans For 100BaseT Link:.

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Utlization (Switch to Client)

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Utilization ( Switch to Server):

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Queueing Delay
Switch to Server

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Queueing Delay:
Switch to Client:

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For 10Base T links:

Page Response and Object Response Time

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For Email Response time:

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Load on server:

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Task Processing time:

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Traffic received (Bytes/sec):

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Traffic sent (bytes/sec):

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Queuing Delay ():

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Queuing Delay ():

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Utilization ():

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Utilization ():

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There is a difference between this scenario and the above scenario as we get variations in the graph and
variations are comparatively a bit more because addition of client and server changes the amount of load
and traffic.

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