Suppose two nodes, A and B, are attached to opposite ends of a 900 m
cable, and that they each have one frame of 1000 bits (including all
headers and preambles) to send to each other. Both nodes attempt to
transmit at time t=0. Suppose there are four repeaters between A and B,
each inserting a 20 bit delay.Assume the transmission rate is 10 Mbps,
and CSMA/CD with backoff intervals of multiples of 512 bits is used.
After the first collision, A draws K=0 and B draws K=1 in the
exponential backoff protocol. Ignore the jam signal.
a) What is the one-way propagation delay (including repeater delays)
between A and B in seconds. Assume that the signal propragation speed is
2 * 108m/sec.
b) At what time (in seconds) is A's packet completely delivered at B.
c) Now suppose that only A has a packet to send and that the repeaters
are replaced with bridges. Suppose that each bridge has a 20 bit
processing delay in addition to a store-and-forward delay.At what time
in seconds is A's packet delivered at B?