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propagation delay

GATE CSE & IT · Network Layer · 2003-2025

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Suppose we are transmitting frames between two nodes using Stop-and-Wait protocol. The frame size is 3000 bits. The transmission rate of the channel is 2000 bps (bits/ second) and...

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Consider the circuit shown below where the gates may have propagation delays. Assume that all signal transitions occur instantaneously and that wires have no delays. Which of the f...

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2023 PYQ

Suppose two hosts are connected by a point-to-point link and they are configured to use Stop-end-Wait protocol for reliable data transfer. Identify in which one of the following sc...

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2022 PYQ

Consider a 100 Mbps link between an earth station (sender) and a satellite (receiver) at an altitude of 2100 km. The signal propagates at a speed of 3 $$\times$$ 10 8 m/s. The time...

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2018 PYQ

Consider a simple communication system where multiple nodes are connected by a shared broadcast medium (like Ethernet or wireless). The nodes in the system use the following carrie...

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2017 Q35

Consider two hosts X and Y, connected by a single direct link of rate 10^6 bits/sec. The distance between the two hosts is 10,000 km and the propagation speed along the link is 2 ×...

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2016 PYQ

A sender uses the Stop-and-Wait ARQ protocol for reliable transmission of frames. Frames are of size 1000 bytes and the transmission rate at the sender is 80 Kbps (1Kbps = 1000 bit...

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2015 PYQ

Consider a CSMA/CD network that transmits data at a rate of 100 Mbps (10 8 bits second) over a 1 km(kilometer) cable with no repeaters. If the minimum frame size required for this...

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2015 PYQ

Two hosts are connected via a packet switch with 10 7 bits per second links. Each link has a propagation delay of 20 microseconds. The switch begins forwarding a packet 35 microsec...

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2015 PYQ

Two hosts are connected via a packet switch with $${10^7}$$ bits per second links. Each link has a propagation delay of $$20$$ micro-seconds. The switch begins forwarding a packet...

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2015 PYQ

A link has a transmission speed of 10 6 bits/sec. It uses data packets of size 1000 bytes each. Assume that the acknowledgement has negligible transmission delay, and that its prop...

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2013 PYQ

Determine the maximum length of cable (in km) for transmitting data at a rate of 500 Mbps in an Ethernet LAN with frames of size 10,000 bits. Assume the signal speed in the cable t...

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2012 PYQ

Consider a source computer (S) transmitting a file of size 10 6 bits to a destination computer (D) over a network of two routers (R 1 and R 2 ) and three links (L 1 , L 2 , and L 3...

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2009 PYQ

Frames of 1000 bits are sent over a 10 6 bps duplex link between two hosts. The propagation time is 25 ms. Frames are to be transmitted into this link to maximally pack them in tra...

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2007 PYQ

The distance between two stations M and N is L kilometers. All frames are K bits long. The propagation delay per kilometer is t seconds. Let R bits/second be the channel capacity....

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2005 PYQ

Suppose the round trip propagation delay for a 10 Mbps Ethernet having 48-bit jamming signal is 46.4 μs. The minimum frame size is

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2004 PYQ

$$A$$ $$4$$-bit carry look ahead adder, which adds two $$4$$-bit numbers, is designed using $$AND,$$ $$OR,$$ $$NOT,$$ $$NAND,$$ $$NOR$$ gates only. Assuming that all the inputs are...

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2003 PYQ

Consider an array multiplier for multiplying two n bit numbers. If each gate in the circuit has a unit delay, the total delay of the multiplier is

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