TCP RTT Analysis| Computer Networks TCP RTT Analysis VIT University, Chennai | Winter Semester 2025–2026 Analysis of Round Trip Time (RTT) Under Varying Traffic Conditions Using Wireshark & hping3 B.Tech CSE | SCOPE Department, VIT Chennai Guided by Dr. SUBBULAKSHMI T 1. Introduction Network performance in real-world systems is rarely measured in isolation. Among the many metrics that define the health of a TCP/IP network, Round Trip Time (RTT) stands out as one of the most telling indicators of end-to-end communication quality. RTT captures the time a packet takes to travel from a source to a destination and back — and its variation across different traffic conditions exposes the dynamics of congestion, buffering, and protocol behavior in ways that raw bandwidth figures cannot. This Digital Assessment (DA-3) focuses exclusively on RTT as the network parameter under study, leveraging Wireshark's powerful ...