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Lab 5 - Transport Layer: Connectionless vs. Connection-oriented

Learning Goals

After this week, you will understand the following concepts

  • TCP States
  • Congestion control
  • Receive window
  • Fairness
  • connectionless and connection-oriented protocols

Focus of the lab

  • introduction to transport layer protocols
  • connectionless vs. connection-oriented protocols
    • TCP vs. UDP
  • performance analysis
  • adverse network conditions

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! :)