A project for a course titled "Measuring Internet Performance". The focus is on comparing the performance characteristics of websites such as YouTube to that of the servers which deliver their actual content.
sudo apt-get build-essential traceroute tcpdump python3-dev python3-pippip install -r requirements.txt(virtual environment suggested: link)- Ensure that tcpdump has permissions to access network device: instructions (N.B. requires reboot after the steps are complete)
- Ensure traceroute has permissions to send ICMP packets:
sudo chmod u+s `which traceroute`and similarly forpingif necessary.
- WinDump installed or in the current directory
- [Python 3] (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
pip install -r requirements.txt(virtual environment suggested: link)
The tests were run with the following version of each module (should the tests need to be replicated):
- psutil==4.3.0
- requests==2.11.1
- youtube-dl==2016.8.13
source <path_to_virtual_environment>/bin/activateif using a virtual environment- Ensure all the URLs of the videos you want to test are in a text file (see urls.txt for an example)
python cdn_perf.py <path_to_urls_file>
- A file
data-<timestamp>.csvwill be created which contains all test results.