10-04-2017, 09:17 PM
TeamTrak Internet Relay. Currently, TeamTrak requires all participants to be in the same general vicinity on the same ad-hoc wireless network. Modify TeamTrak so that it also works across the Internet. To do this, change the ethernet module to transmit UDP packets to a fixed host at Notre Dame. Then, build a relay server on that host that forwards all received packets to all other nodes that it has heard from in that last five minutes. Demonstrate that you can build and run a TeamTrak network over the wide area. Measure the scalability of the central server. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this approach, compared to a local ethernet broadcast.