PROBLEM 1

Suppose you must develop a server application that centralizes SNMP information from
several devices in a database. The server is accessible from several computers in a way
that all the traffic containing the information requests towards the server has got an
exponential distribution.
Thanks to your programming skills, every request calls a jsp code in the server that
generates the response after retrieving the database and, with some experiments, you
check that this process in average takes 0.2 seconds per request, and also presents an
exponential distribution.

If the requests are processed in a sequential way, and it is observed that the 99% of the
time the number of requests in the whole system are limited to one, estimate:

a) The mean arrival rate of requests.

b) The average number of waiting requests to be served in the input of the
application.
c) The percentage of the total requests that must be waiting above 1 sec. before
being proccesed.
d) Reason what will happen with the above estimations if the database in the server
increases the time needed for retrieving its data.

PROBLEM 2

Suppose a router connected to a WAN link that is modelled with a M/M/1 queue. The
link has got a certain capacity C (bps) and it supports the router output traffic of λ
packets/sec. It is expected that the traffic through the router will be soon the double, and
then a link with more capacity will be used to maintain a similar Residence Time in the
queueing system. Which should be the value for the new capacity of the WAN link?
(Mark all the correct answers).

a) More than the current value C.

b) Double the current value C.
c) More than double the current value C.
d) Less than double the current value C.

Justify the answers.

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