School of Computer Engineering

KIIT deemed to be University

Discipline:CS/IT/CSCE/CSSE

Course name and Code: Networks Laboratory, IT-3095 (L-T-P-Cr: 1 )

Instructor Name: Dr. Suchismita Rout, Email: [email protected]

Instructor Chamber: Cubicle-O, Faculty block-101, First floor, Campus-14

Technical Assistants Names:

Course Contents:
List of experiments:

Lab 1: 24-28th July

• Coverage

1. Discuss what is networking and its significance in computer network. Discuss

the components (i.e., h/w and s/w) required for data communication in a

Computer Network. (Show the h/w components like Network Interface Card

(NIC), Network Cable, RG-45 Connector, Hub, Switch, Router etc.)

2. Highlight the importance of socket programming as a s/w for data

communication and the basic fundamentals required for doing socket

programming using C.

3. Review of function, pointer, structure, structure with in a structure, pointer to

structure, and command line argument concept using C programming

Language.

4. What is little endian and big endian. Discuss the significance of endianness in

computer network.

• Assignments

1. Write a C program to swap the content of 2 variables entered through the

command line using function and pointer.

2. Write a C program to assign values to each member of the following structure.

function using call-by-address and print the value of each member of the

structure.

struct student_info{

int roll_no;

char name [50];

float CGPA;

struct dob age;

};

3. Write a C program to extract each byte from a given number and store them in

separate character variables and print the content of those variables.

4. Write a C Program to enter a number and store the number across the

following structure and print the content of each member of the structure.

Then aggregate each member of the structure to form the original number and

print the same.

struct pkt{

char ch1;

char ch2[2];

char ch3;

};

5. Write a C program to check whether the Host machine is in Little Endian or

Big Endian. Enter a number, print the content of each byte location and

Convert the Endianness of the same i.e. Little to Big Endian and vice-versa.

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Lab 2: 1-5th August

• Coverage

1. Basics of Socket Programming.

2. Details of Connection less Socket programming APIs for TCP/IP stack using
C.

• Assignments

1. Write a sender and receiver program in C by passing the IP address and the

port number of each other through the command line arguments using

connection less socket. Both of them will exchange messages with each other

continuously. If any one of them will receive the “exit” message from the

other end then both of them will close the connection. (Assume both the client

and server are running with in the same host)

Lab 3: 7-11 th August

• Coverage

Details of Connection Oriented Socket programming APIs for TCP/IP stack using

C.

• Assignments

Write a connection-oriented client and server program in C using command line

arguments. At the server side, pass the port number (to whom the server will bind

to) in the command line. At the client side, pass the IP address and the port

number of the server (to whom the client will connect to) as command line

argument and carry out the following tasks.

◦ After establishment of connection print the IP Address and port number of the

client to whom the server is connected now.

◦ Then exchange messages.

◦ After message exchange is over then the client sends a “close” message to the

server to tear down the connection.

Lab 4: 14- 18 August

• Coverage

1. Demonstrate the packet Analyzer tool (Wireshark) to analyze the details of a

packet which is captured during packet transmission in the network.

2. Discuss the overview of file transfer over a computer network. • Assignments

and server with in the same and different host.

2. Write a connection-oriented client and server program in C using command

line arguments. Do the file transfer from the server as follows.

◦ Server first sends the list of files present in the current directory at it's

own end.

◦ After receiving the same, client send the name of a file it wants to

download from the server.

◦ Finally, after receiving the same server uploads the file to the client.

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◦ After sending the file, server closes the client connection at its own

end.

Lab 5: 21-28 August

• Coverage

1. Discuss how to design a stop-and-wait protocol on top of connectionless

sockets.

• Assignments

1. Implement stop-and-wait protocol on top of UDP sockets using C program.

2. Implement Go-back-N protocol on top of UDP sockets using C program.

Lab 6: 28th August- 1 September

• Coverage

1. Discuss how to fragment and reassemble packets at the source and destination

host respectively.

• Assignments

1. Write a connection-oriented client and server socket program using C where

the client will suppose to send a large buffer to the server. Keeping

fragmentation and reassembly into account the following functionality needs

to be supported.
Fragmentation functionality

• First client needs to find the MTU size of its own and display the same.

• Based on the MTU size it will decide whether to fragment the data or not

and display the message accordingly.

• In case of fragmentation, first find the number of fragments required and

display the same.

• Prepare each fragment with the following information and display the

same.

1. Id (Identification number)

2. flag (More fragments flag)

3. offset (Fragmentation offset)

4. HL (Header Length)

5. TL (Total Length)

6. payload (Data)

• Send all the fragments to the server.

Reassembly functionality

• First server needs to find whether the received datagram is a fragmented

one or not and display the same.

• Continue receiving all the fragments belonging to a fraction of the same

data till the last fragment and display all the fragments data with their

details.

• Then follow the below steps to start the reassembly procedure

1. first find out the first fragment.

2. Calculate the offset of the next fragment and check whether the

next fragment is available or not.

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3. If available, repeat step-2 till flag value 0 or else display a

appropriate error.
• Finally display the assembled datagram.

Lab 7 : 25- 29 September

• Coverage

1. What is I/O multiplexing and why it is required?

2. Discuss different types of I/O multiplexing.

3. Discuss how to design a concurrent chart server using fork ().

• Assignments

1. Design a connection oriented concurrent chart server using fork () in C where

the server will serve multiple chart clients simultaneously. When the chart

server receives a “logout” message from a particular client then it terminates

the respective connection with that chart client.

Lab 8 : 3-6 October

• Coverage

1. Details of I/O multiplexing using select () API.

2. Discuss how to design a concurrent chart server using select ().

• Assignments

1. Design a connection oriented concurrent chart server using select () in C

where the server will serve multiple chart clients simultaneously. When the

chart server receives a “logout” message from a particular client then it

terminates the respective connection with that chart client.

Lab 9 : 9-13 October

• Network Configuration using to network simulator

1. Introduction to network simulator tool (Cisco Packet Tracer /NS2/NS3) and

its applications.

2. Demonstration of how routing works using simulator tool? • Assignments

1. Simulate routing of packets in a LAN with in the same subnet.

2. Simulate routing of packets in a LAN with different subnets.

Lab 10: 6- 10 November

1. Comparison and analysis of existing protocols using network simulator.

• Assignments

1. Compare and analyze different routing protocol using network simulator

Grading Policies:

 Continuous Evaluation components:

 End semester evaluation: 40 Marks. 20- 24 November

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