Lab 6 — Transport Layer (Reliable Transport Protocol)

Learning Goals

After this week, you will understand the following concepts

• Forwarding and Routing
• Forwarding Table and Routing Processor
• Longest Prefix Matching
• Queueing
  • AQM and RED
  • Round Robin
  • WFQ
• Packet scheduling

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Focus of the lab

• reliable transport protocols
• compare: simple UDP sender/reciever vs. reliable transport protocol on top of UDP
• how to handle packet loss, corruption, and delays
• Go-Back-N protocol

Before Starting the Lab

• Make sure you are in the "labs" directory in your VM. If not, move to the directory with the command cd ~/labs.
• Save your work from the previous lab:

git add .
git commit -m "Commit message"

• Get the lab for this week with the command git pull origin main --no-edit.
• Good luck with the lab! :)