Homework #8 Solutions

cs349 -- Networks
Imagine that A is sending a packet to D. Does C know
that that transmission is happening? If so, how? If not,
why not?
It does know, because it heard D's CTS.
If C sends an RTS to B during that transmission,
would it interfere with the transmission? Explain how C would know
whether it was OK or not.
It would cause interference, and C knows it because
it knows that the receiver is in range.
Imagine that some time in the future D is sending a message to
A. Does C know that that transmission is happening? If so, how? If
not, why not?
It does know, because it heard the RTS and it hears the frame.
If C sends an RTS to B during that transmission,
would it interfere with the transmission? Explain how C would know
whether it was OK or not.
It would not cause interference, because the listener is out
of range, and C knows that because it did not hear the CTS.
Question 47 from the book
An IEEE 802.5 token ring has five stations and a total wire
length of 230m. How many bits of delay must the monitor insert
into the ring? Do this for both 4 Mbps and 16 Mbps; use a propagation
rate of 2.3 x 10^8.
As an aside, this propagation rate is approximately right for
the propagation of an electrical signal in a wire (about 2/3
the speed of light). It is worth noting, though, that the
electrons themselves don't move anything like that fast
(only a few meters per second of drift).
Anyway, the token is 24 bits. 5 of them are in stations at any
given time, so we have to figure out how many are on the wire.
The propagation time is 230m / 2.3 x 10^8 m/s = 1 us
At 4 Mbps that means there are 4 bits on the wire and
24 - 5 - 4 = 15 bits in the monitor.
At 16 Mbps there are 15 bits on the wire and only
24 - 5 - 16 = 3 bits in the monitor.