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Chapter I 说明：括弧中红色标号为课本中对应的习题号（R-Review Questions, P-Problems） 1.1，1.2节后的作业： (R1)What is the difference between a host and an end system? List the types of end systems. Is a Web server an end system? Answer: There is no difference between a host and an end system. Type: PCs, workstations, Web servers, mail servers, Internet-connected PDAs, WebTVs, cellphone (R3)What is a client program? What is a server program? Does a server program request and receive services from a client program? Answer: (R4)List six access technologies. Classify each one as residential access, company access, or mobile access. Answer: (1)residential access :dial-up modem, DSL, HFC (2) company access :100 Mbps switched Enternet (3) mobile access :wireless LAN, cellular telephony (R8)Dial-up modems, HFC, and DSL are all used for residential access. For each of these access technologies, provide a range of transmission rates and comment on whether the transmission rate is shared or dedicated. Answer: Dial-up modems :up to 56kbps direct access to router(often less),is dedicated. HFC : 30Mbps downstream ,is shared. DSL :up to 8Mbps downstream, is dedicated . (R10)Describe the most popular wireless Internet access technologies today. Compare and contrast them. Answer : There are two most popular wireless Internet access technologies today: Wireless LAN In a wireless LAN, wireless users transmit/receive packets to/from a base station (wireless access point) within a radius of a few ten s of meters. The base station is connected to the wired Internet and thus serves to connect wireless users to the wired network. wide-area wireless access network packets are transmitted over the same wireless infrastructure used for cellular telephony ,with the base station thus being managed by a telecommunications provider .This provides wireless access to users within a radius of tens of kilometers of the base station. 删除 1.3，1.4节后的作业： (R16)Consider sending a packet from a source host to a destina