19ECE311 COMPUTER NETWORKS

Assignment - 4
Simulation of wireless local, personal and wide
area network using Cisco Packet Tracer

Group members:
BHARADWAJ A V K – CB.EN.U4ECE20111

HARISHANKAR G R – CB.EN.U4ECE20124

KEERTHIVASAN C – CB.EN.U4ECE20131

SRINIVASAN M – CB.EN.U4ECE20156

Question:
Simula on of wireless local, personal and wide area network using Cisco Packet Tracer

a. Theory:
We can create a WAN by connec ng large numbers of local area networks. Computer
networks were used to share informa on between di erent systems. The WAN is an
interconnec ng network between ci es and capitals.
The WAN is the interconnec ng network of ci es and capitals. At present day the network is
accessible from everywhere at any me, so we have to provide the fast and secure connec on
irrespec ve of loca on to every user.
The Cisco packet tracer provides the path to calculate the e ect of a hardware upgrade,
changing topology, and increase of network tra c, or using of latest applica ons on the network.
It is used by Cisco to iden fy basic capabili es for the se ng up and maintenance of
medium-sized networks. This so ware allows us to connect di erent computers like routers,
switches and di erent users to establish communica on between each other to exchange data. It
is also scalable to construct a methodological and reliable. network. Portability is one of the
features of the WAN func on so ware.

Dynamic Host Con gura on Protocol (DHCP):

Dynamic Host Con gura on Protocol is useful to model the host’s speci c IP address. It is
used to provide di erent types. Subnet mask used to determine whether or not the host is on the
network. The sub net mask is used in.
1) Router Address
2) DNS Address
3) Class Identifier
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 The IP address should be di erent when we nd a network where we should use IP

addresses for systems or PCs. Total system is useless if it does not o er unique Ip address. For
example, if these two systems don’t have di erent IP addresses, take two systems PC1, PC2, the
data coming through it doesn't understand going to a speci c system and the systems get
corrupted. As we took two computers, we assign Ip addresses manually, according to our example.
s we took two pc’s, we assign Ip addresses manually. But in case where there are many pcs or
devices it is di cult to assign, so DHCP is used.

USER INTERFACE:
The monitor will be shown in the city's digital topology.
• The Cisco Packet Tracer network emulator is easy to implement and provides a clear
appeal to the graphical user interface.
• Five switches will be shown, separate VLANs and 1 router will be connected to the VWAN.
• The interface of the command line (CLI) will allow you to adjust it or customize it

Cisco Packet Tracer:

Cisco Packet Tracer has two modes namely Physical mode and Logical mode.
This Packet Tracer is a developed by the Cisco for virtual design of network architectures
and the topologies this tool allows all the users to create their own network designs and simulate
according to present world computer networks. This so ware permits all users to use a graphical
command line interface to run the setup of Cisco routers and devices. It is a drag - drop interface
which includes to con gure IP address of routers, switches, PC and many more. In this we can
con gure switches in two di erent ways. Firstly, by wri ng some commands in CLI which is
Command Line Interface and the other way is by giving IP address to the external devices which are
connected for the switch. As Packet Tracer is exible it allows users to add or it allow user to
remove virtual network devices.

IPv4 ADDRESSING:
An IP address is an address given to every system to iden fy each system during
communica on and it is in numeric form., Every device is assigned by an its own individual IP
address for communica on. An ipv4 address is in size of 32 bits of data, This IP address is derived
into di erent classes based on the requirements, it is a logical address given to users to establish
network communica on and 232 address can be given to users. It is in the form of 132.148.20.100
in which each number is of 8 bits. The Ip address is of two various types one of it is network
address and also called as service address and another is receiver address. The IP address is
designed to establish communica on between server and the host and to provide the address to
the users to establish the secure communica on

Classes of Addresses:
There are classi ed into ve various classes and are shown below
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 Types of IPv4 addressing mode:

Subnet Mask:
The subnet mask is used to iden fy the subnet allocated to the Ip address. The Ip address
are divided as two parts one is receiver address and another is server address. The subnet performs
bitwise AND opera ons to iden fy the network address of Ip address [21].
Default subnet masks for all network classes:

Basic WAN Architecture:

Wide area network connects mul ple number of LANS from di erent places and forms into
a single network. The switches and routers and all the devices combine together and establish the

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 connec on between themselves and forms the local area network and a various number of LANs
connect each other and forms a single network called WAN network [22]. while local network
establish connec on between colleges and ins tutes these WAN area networks connects di erent
LANs and establish the communica on between di erent ci es.

b. Simula on:
Cisco Packet Tracer:

c. Conclusion:
There are many advantages of LAN over WAN, such as LAN’s provide excellent reliability, high
data transmission rate, they can easily be managed and shares peripheral devices too. Local Area
Network cannot cover ci es or towns and for that Metropolitan Area Network is needed, which can
connect a city or a group of ci es together.

d. References:
1. Founda ons of Python network programming by Beaulne, Alexandre Goerzen, John Membrey, Peter
Rhodes, Brandon 2014
2. Founda ons of Python 3 Network Programming, Second Edi on by John Goerzen, Brandon Rhodes
3. https://www.sfu.ca/~ljilja/ENSC427/Spring14/Projects/team2/ENSC427_team2_report.pdf
4. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/wireless-wide-area-network
5. http://ijcsit.com/docs/Volume%206/vol6issue01/ijcsit20150601129.pdf
6. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9148524

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