Prut Udomwattawee

CS465: Computer Network

October 3, 2007

Assignment #4

Chapter 13 Review questions:

4. The advantage of dividing an Ethernet LAN with a bridge is that the efficiency increases because the
collision will be low. In this case we divide the domain into the smaller domain now, the collision will be
reduced because the chance that the nodes will be used the channel will be reduce. The best is we use
switch because only one node per domain.

6. The reason that we do not need the CSMA/CD in a full-duplex Ethernet LAN. There is will be no
collision. Full duplex is mean that two computers can communicate directly without interruption. Then
we do not need to use CSMA/CD because they can send and receive the message at the same time.

Exercises:

14. Ethernet destination address is 07:01:02:03:04:05 is a multicast because the least significant bit in
the first byte in a destination address is not zero. (0000 0111)

16. Ethernet MAC sub layer receives 42 bytes of data from the upper layer. Then we need to add 4 bytes
padding to complete the minimum requirement for the total of 46 bytes in data structure in the
Ethernet data frame.

46
18. The ratio for useful data for the smallest Ethernet frame is useful data= =71.875 %
64
1500
The ratio for useful data for the largest Ethernet frame is useful data= =98.814229 %
1518
Chapter 14 Review questions:

4. The access method used by wireless LANs is CSMA/CA - Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision
Avoidance.

Exercise:

12. Compare between IEEE 802.3 and 802.11

 Fields IEEE 802.3 (Bytes) IEEE 802.11 (Bytes)
Destination address 6 N/A
Source address 6 N/A
Address 1 N/A 6
Address 2 N/A 6
Address 3 N/A 6
Address 4 N/A 6
FC N/A 2
D/ID N/A 2
SC N/A 2
PDU length 2 N/A
Data and padding 46 - 1500 N/A
Frame body N/A 0 - 2312
FCS (CRC) 4 4

As we can see that the overhead for IEEE 802.3 has less size than IEEE 802.11. The size of IEEE 802.3 has
a range from 64 bytes – 1,518 bytes. IEEE 802.11 has a size range from 34 bytes to 2346 bytes. The
overhead for IEEE 802.3 is 18 bytes and IEEE 802.11 is 34 bytes.