OMNett++ and INET Project -- 2

In this first part of the project you will use OMNet++ to simulate the basic behavior of
two data link layer protocols, namely, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and Carrier
Sense Multiple Access (CSMA). The simulation you create will be run with different
setups/scenarios varying the number of hosts and amount of data to be transferred in
each run. For different amounts of data (file sizes) you will measure the average time to
transfer the data while varying the host count. To simplify the simulation, we will assume
that each packet is 1KB in size, and each file size correspond to certain number of
packets, so a 100KB file needs 100 packets to be transferred successfully.


In this second part you will use the INET Framework to build a simulation to better
understand how the number of servers, servers placement, and the number of
concurrent clients affect data transfer rates. You will use the included INET modules
(hosts, switches, and routers) to build the simulation, no need to create the
components.
Start by creating a very basic network placing one client in one network and one
server in another network and separate them by a router.
Add a switch and increase the number of clients to 5.
Add a second router to increase the number of hops.
Keep experimenting by increasing the number of clients and number of servers.
Choose a suitable data size and delays and report on the effect of the network
topology on the time it takes to transfer the data.