CSE 354 Computer Networks Name: ___________________ _____

HW 03 – Section 1.4 Score: _____ / 21

1. (3) What is the transmission delay to send a 5 MByte file from a source host to a
destination host over a link with a transmission rate of 10 Mbps? (Note: for networking
1 Mbps = 1,000,000 bps; for file sizes for CSE 354, use 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes; for memory
sizes use 1 MB = 1024 * 1024 bytes)
4 seconds

2. (3) Given a propagation speed of 2 * 108 meters/sec, a single link that is 500 km long, a
10 Mbit file, and a transmission rate of 100 Mbps, how many bits will the source have
transmitted when the first bit is just arriving at the destination? [This could also be
thought about as “How many bits fill the link?” for this particular problem.]
250,000 bits

3. (4) Experiment with the ‘Transmission versus Propagation Delay’ applet at

http://wps.pearsoned.com/ecs_kurose_compnetw_6/216/55463/14198700.cw/index.html
(Interactive Animations button on the left side). Run it with at least four different settings
running it enough times at each setting to understand what is happening and how it
compares with other settings. Award yourself 1 point for each simulation you ran up to
four points.

Points: ____4_____

4. (2) What is the difference between transmission delay and propagation delay

The transmission delay has to do with the packet’s length and the transmission rate of the link,
propagation delay has to do with the distance between the two routers.

5. (2) Matching

Transmission rate ____A_____ Propagation speed ______B_______

A. The speed of a network interface (wired or wireless) card such as 10 Mbps, or 1 Gbps
B. Something less than the speed of light, often 2/3c, or 2 * 108 m/sec
6. (5) Consider sending a file of F = M * L bits over a path of Q links. Each link transmits
at R bps. The network is lightly loaded so that there are no queuing delays. When a form
of packet switching is used, the M * L bits are broken up into M packets, each packet with
L bits. Propagation delay is negligible.
Suppose the network is a packet-switched virtual circuit (VC) network (uses store-and-
forward). Denote the VC set-up time by ts seconds. Suppose the sending layers add a
total of h bits of header to each packet. How long does it take to send the file from
source to destination?

Hint: First figure out how long it takes to get the first packet to its destination.
Then consider how long after this time, the last bit of the last packet arrives.

Ts + Q(L+h/R) + (m – 1)(L+h/R)

Suppose the network is a packet-switched datagram network and a connectionless

service is used. Now suppose each packet has 2h bits of header. How long does it take
to send the file? [Assume no lost packets, no contention for resources, and that the
packets take the same path through the datagram network. {We wish it was this way!}]

Q(L+2h/R) + (m – 1)(L+2h/R)

7. (2) True or false?

a. T / F The constraining factor for throughput in today’s Internet is typically the

access network.

b. T / F The throughput from a server to a client is always constrained by either the

transmission rate of the outgoing server link or the incoming rate of the client link.