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IE3017 Computer Communications

Tutorial 5

1. Suppose a sliding window flow control protocol is used over a 1.5Mbps geostationary satellite
link between an earth station and the satellite, where the distance between the satellite and the
earth is 36000 km. Suppose that 250-byte frames are used as the data link protocol data unit.
What is the effective data rate in bps at which information can be transmitted over the link
using a window size W = 127? Assume that the receiver sends acknowledgement (ACK) for
every frame that it receives.

(Ans: 1.05 Mbps)

2. Redo problem 1 assuming that the satellite link is now used between two earth stations with
the satellite acting as a repeater which only introduces an 8-bit delay (1-bit delay is defined to
be the time used to transmit 1 bit by the channel) for every frame it processes. (Note that the
satellite node here is not a store-and-forward node). How about with a bigger window size as
W = 2047?

(Ans: 0.53 Mbps, 1.5Mbps)

3. Two stations communicate via a 1-Mbps link with a propagation delay of 270ms. HDLC
frames of 1024 bits with window size W = 7 are transmitted for the data link control protocol.
Determine the maximum possible data payload throughput in bps. (Hint: check lecture notes
for HDLC frame formats to decide the overhead length.)
(Ans: 12.6 kbps)

Other possible discussion topics with your tutor:


1. More examples on bit-stuffing and byte-stuffing
2. One or more examples of ‘adaptors’ – NIC, where data link layer is implemented

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