'Helper function that will increase the rate, sending the
desired number of request, and receiving the same
amount of them.
:param rate_measurer: The ``RateMeasurer`` we are testing.
:param num_requests: The number of request we want to make.
:param num_samples: The number of samples to collect.'

def increase_rate(self, rate_measurer, num_requests, num_samples):

    self.send_requests(rate_measurer, num_requests, num_samples)
    self.receive_requests(rate_measurer, num_requests, num_samples)
