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Data Communications Network Questions

This document contains 5 questions regarding data communications and networks. Question 1 asks about the source and destination IP addresses for packets sent within and between two different networks. Question 2 involves calculating the number of possible hosts and subnets given a subnet mask. Question 3 describes how good news propagates in distance-vector routing and asks to show the new distance vectors after a link metric decreases. Question 4 uses Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest path tree and forwarding table for a node. Question 5 asks about the slow start phase in TCP congestion control.

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Data Communications Network Questions

This document contains 5 questions regarding data communications and networks. Question 1 asks about the source and destination IP addresses for packets sent within and between two different networks. Question 2 involves calculating the number of possible hosts and subnets given a subnet mask. Question 3 describes how good news propagates in distance-vector routing and asks to show the new distance vectors after a link metric decreases. Question 4 uses Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest path tree and forwarding table for a node. Question 5 asks about the slow start phase in TCP congestion control.

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Data Communications and Networks

Answer all the questions

1. A host with IP address 200.100,1.2 wants to send a packet to all hosts in the
same network
and different network (Network Id: [Link]) What is the source IP address and
destination
IP address of these two packets? Explain? [2 M]

2. A subnet mask is given as [Link]. Then, answer the following questions


a) What is the number hosts can be configured? [3 M]
b) How many subnets and hosts per subnet are possible if it is a class A subnet
mask?
c) How many subnets and hosts per subnet are possible if it is a class B subnet
mask?

3. In distance-vector routing, good news (decrease in a link metric) will propagate


fast. In other
words, if a link distance decreases, all nodes quickly learn about it and update
their vectors. In
the given Figure , we assume that a four-node internet is stable, but suddenly
the distance
between nodes A and D, which is currently 6, is decreased to 2 (probably due to
some
improvement in the link quality). Show how this good news is propagated and find
the new
distance vector for each node after stabilization. [4M]

A 1)
A 0 A A 3 A 6
B 3 A 0 B 5
C 5 B C 2 B C 4 D
D 6.A D 5 B 0

Cost
Next hop

4. Use Dijkstra's algorithm to find the shortest path tree and the forwarding table
for node A in
the following [4M]
5. If the slow start phase starts with 1 mss and no congestion is detected until
maximum receiver
capacity is reached. After how many RTT's maximum receiver capacity is reached?
Explain.
Consider the receiver capacity is 64 mss. [2.5 M]

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