Chapter I1. What is the difference between a host and an end system? List the types of endsystems. Is a Web server an end system?2. What is a client program? What is a server program? Does a server program requestand receive services from a client program?3. List six access technologies. Classify each one as residential access, companyaccess, or mobile access.4. Dial-up modems, HFC, and DSL are all used for residential access. For each ofthese access technologies, provide a range of transmission rates and comment on whether the transmission rate is shared or dedicated.5. Describe the most popular wireless Internet access technologies today. Compareand contrast them.6. What advantage does a circuit-switched network have over a packet-switchednetwork? What advantages does TDM have over FDM in a circuit-switched network?7. Consider sending a packet from a source host to a destination host over a fixedroute. List the delay components in the end-to-end delay. Which of these delays are constant and which are variable?8. How long does it take a packet of length 2,000 bytes to propagate over a linkof distance 2,000 km, propagation speed 8102⨯ m/s, and transmission rate 2 Mbps? More generally, how long does it take a packet of length L to propagate over a link of distance d, propagation speed s, and transmission rate R bps? Does this delay depend on packet length? Does this delay depend on transmission rate?9. What are the five layers in the Internet protocol stack? What are the principalresponsibilities of each of these layers?10. Which layers in the Internet protocol stack does a router process? Which layersdoes a link-layer switch process? Which layers does a host process?11. What is an application-layer message? A transport-layer segment? A network-layerdatagram? A link-layer frame?12. This elementary problem begins to explore propagation delay and transmissiondelay, two central concepts in data networking. Consider two hosts, A and B, connected by a single link of rate R bps. Suppose that the two hosts are separated by m meters, and suppose the propagation speed along the link is s meters/sec. Host A is to send a packet of size L bits to Host B.a. Express the propagation delay, prop d , in terms of m and s.b. Determine the transmission time of the packet,trans d , in terms of L and R.c. Ignoring processing and queuing delays, obtain an expression for the end-to-end delay.d. Suppose Host A begins to transmit the packet at time t = 0. At time trans d t =,where is the last bit of the packet?e. Suppose prop d is greater than trans d . At time t = trans d ,where is the first bit of the packet?f. Suppose prop d is less than trans d . At time t = trans d , where is the first bit of the packet?g. Suppose 8105.2⨯=s , L = 100bits, and R = 28 kbps. Find the distance m so that prop d equals trans d .13. In modern packet-switched networks, the source host segments long,application-layer messages (for example, an image or a music file) into smaller packets and sends the packets into the network. The receiver then reassembles the packets back into the original message. We refer to this process as message segmentation. Figure 1.24 illustrates the end-to-end transport of a message with and without message segmentation. Consider a message that is 6108⨯ bits long that is to be sent from source to destination in Figure 1.24. Suppose each link in the figure is 2 Mbps. Ignore propagation, queuing, and processing delays.a. Consider sending the message from source to destination without message segmentation. How long does it take to move the message from the source host to the first packet switch? Keeping in mind that each switch uses store-and-forward packet switching, what is the total time to move the message from source host to destination host?b. Now suppose that the message is segmented into 4,000 packets, with each packet being 2,000 bits long. How long does it take to move the first packet from source host to the first switch? When the first packet is being sent from the first switch to the second switch, the second packet is being sent from the source host to the first switch. At what time will the second packet be fully received at the first switch?c. How long does it take to move the file from source host to destination hostwhen message segmentation is used? Compare this result with your answer in part(a) and comment.d. Discuss the drawbacks of message segmentation.14.下列说法中,正确的是( )。
