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COMPUTER NETWORKS FOURTH EDITION PROBLEM SOLUTIONS ANDREW S. TANENBAUM Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands PRENTICE HALL PTR UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ 07458 © 2003 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall PTR Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 0-13-046002-8 Pearson Education LTD. Pearson Education Australia PTY, Limited Pearson Education Singapore, Pte. Ltd. Pearson Education North Asia Ltd. Pearson Education Canada, Ltd. Pearson Educación de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. Pearson Education — Japan Pearson Education Malaysia, Pte. Ltd. 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. 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 unif