Berdon, Adelfa Mae D.

BS ECE-4

ASSIGNMENT ON ETHERNET

1. Suppose the length of a 10Base5 cable is 2.5 km. If the speed of

propagation in a thick coaxial cable is 200,000,000 m/s, how long
does it take for a bit to travel from the beginning to the end of
the network? Assume there are 10 µs delay in the equipment.

Given: Length of a 10Base5 cable = 2.5 km;

Speed of propagation of coax cable = 200,000,000 m/s;
Delay in equip. = 10 µs

Because 10Base5 has a maximum transmission distance (length) of

500m, repeaters should be installed into the line to assure
transmission over the entire length of the 2500m cable.

Calculating the propagation time (t):

Formula:

Solution:

Adding the propagation delay to equipment (D):

Time of the bit to travel (beginning to end of network) = (delay

x no. of repeaters) + t
Time of the bit to travel = ((10µs x 4) + 12.5µs)

Time of the bit to travel = 52.5µs (beginning to end of network)

2. An Ethernet MAC sublayer receives 1510 bytes of data from the
upper 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?

Solution:

LLC sublayer – 1st sublayer of Data Link Layer (DLL) of the OSI
model.

MAC sublayer - 2nd sublayer “ “ “

From the LLC, data is encapsulated with:

minimum = 46bytes;
maximum = 1500 bytes

MAC sublayer receives = 1520 bytes of data from LLC,

first frame contains: 1500 bytes (max. size of data)

Remaining data size (R):

R = (received data)-(max. size of data in firs frame)
R = 1510 bytes – 1500 bytes
R = 10 bytes

Second frame:
min. size = 46 bytes; (added padding (P) to make it 46bytes)
Remaining data size = 10 bytes;

Remaining padding bytes (P):

P = 46 bytes-R
P = 46 bytes - 10 bytes
P = 36 bytes
In 46 bytes, the 2nd & smallest frame size (S) is:
S = R + P
S = 10 bytes + 36 bytes
S = 46bytes

Hence, from the calculations, data CANNOT BE SENT IN A SINGLE/ONE

FRAME, but CAN BE SENT IN TWO FRAMES:

The size of data in each frame is:

1st frame = 1500 bytes
2nd frame = 46 bytes