The project was run on Ubuntu 20.04 OS in Oracle VM. Mininet requires SUDO permission to run the program.

Mininet Installation To install Mininet, Follow Option 2 (Native Installation from Source) from this website http://mininet.org/download/

Python Packages Required: Mininet psutil

Run the project file (net.py) using the command: sudo python3 net.py and type the password if prompted. (If the program is interrupted mid execution, execute command : (sudo mn -c) to clean up the network before running the code again)

The program takes 11 minutes to run. After execution, you are expected to see benchmark values for both topologies.

VM Configuration : OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Base Memory : 8192 MB Processors : 4