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COMPUTER NETWORKS FIFTH EDITION PROBLEM SOLUTIONS ANDREW S. TANENBAUM Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands and DAVID WETHERALL University of Washington Seattle, WA PRENTICE HALL Upper Saddle River, NJ PROBLEM SOLUTIONS 1 SOLUTIONS TO CHAPTER 1 PROBLEMS 1. The dog can carry 21 gigabytes, or 168 gigabits. A speed of 18 km/hour equals 0.005 km/sec. The time to travel distance x km is x / 0.005 = 200x sec, yielding a data rate of 168/ 200x Gbps or 840/x Mbps. For x 5.6 km, the dog has a higher rate than the communication line. (i) If dog’s speed is doubled, maximum value of x is also doubled. (ii) If tape capacity is doubled, value of x is also doubled. (iii) If data rate of the transmission line is doubled, value of x is halved. 2. The LAN model can be grown incrementally. If the LAN is just a long cable. it cannot be brought down by a single failure (if the servers are replicated) It is probably cheaper. It provides more computing power and better interactive interfaces. 3. A transcontinental fiber link might have many gigabits/sec of bandwidth, but the latency will also be high due to the speed of light propagation over thousands of kilometers. In contrast, a 56-kbps modem calling a computer in the same building has low bandwidth and low latency. 4. A uniform delivery time is needed for voice as well as video, so the amount of jitter in the network is important. This could be expressed as the standard deviation of the delivery time. Having short delay but large variability is ac- tually worse