Exercises of season 3

Mohammadmahdi Haghighat pour 98221033150008

Amirreza khoshseir sabet 98221033150011

S3

1. Imagine the length of a 10Base5 cable is 2500 meters. If the speed of propagation in a thick
coaxial cable is 200,000,000 meters/second, how long does it take for a bit to travel from the
beginning to the end of the network? Ignore any propagation delay in the equipment.

Answer:
𝐷
Distance(D) = Time(T) × Velocity(V) → 𝑇=
𝑣

2500𝑚
𝑇= = 1.25 × 10−5
200000000 𝑚/𝑠

2. Using the data in Exercise 2, find the maximum time it takes to sense a collision. The worst case
occurs when data are sent from one end of the cable and the collision happens at the other end.
Remember that the signal needs to make a round trip.

Answer:
the collision would be sensed in 2 x 12.5 = 25 microseconds.

3. The data rate of 10Base5 is 10 Mbps. How long does it take to create the smallest frame? Show
your calculation.

Answer:
Assume that the minimum frame size is 65 bytes or 520 bits. We have L = T × R, where L is the
length of the frame, T is the time, and the R is the data rate.
𝐿 65 ×8
𝑇= → = 52 𝑀𝑠
𝑅 10 × 10−6

4. Using the data in Exercises 3 and 4, find the minimum size of an Ethernet frame for collision
detection to work properly.

Answer:
250𝑏𝑖𝑡
𝑇 × 𝑟 = 25𝑀𝑠 → 25 × 10𝑀 = 8
= 31.25

5. An Ethernet MAC sublayer receives 42 bytes of data from the LLC sublayer. How many bytes of
padding must be added to the data?
Answer:

The padding needs to make the size of the data section 46 bytes. If the data received from the
upper layer is 42 bytes, we need 46 − 42 = 4 bytes of padding.
Source:
https://cpentalk.com/search?q=6.%09An+Ethernet+MAC+sublayer+receives+1510+bytes+of+d
ata+from+the+LLC+layer.+Can+the+data+be+encapsulated+in+one+frame%3F+If+not%2C+ho
w+many+frames+need+to+be+sent%3F+What+is+the+size+of+the+data+in+each+frame%3F

6. An Ethernet MAC sublayer receives 1510 bytes of data from the LLC layer. Can the data be
encapsulated in one frame? If not, how many frames need to be sent? What is the size of the
data in each frame?

Answer:

Hence, data cannot be sent in one frame but it can send in two frames where first frame
size is 1500 bytes and seconds frame is 46 bytes.
Source: https://cpentalk.com/1880/ethernet-sublayer-receives-layer-encapsulated-frames-frame

7. Compare and contrast CSMA/CD with CSMA/CA.

Answer:

• CSMA / CD is effective after a collision. Whereas CSMA / CA is effective before

a collision.
• CSMA / CD is used in wired networks. Whereas CSMA / CA is commonly used
in wireless networks.
• It only reduces the recovery time. ...
• CSMA / CD resends the data frame whenever a conflict occurs. ...
• CSMA / CD is used in 802.3 standard.
Source: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-csma-ca-and-csma-cd/

8. Use Table 3.10 to compare and contrast the fields in IEEE 802.3 and 802.11.

Answer:
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allow-for-proper/