IS 450 Examples and Explanations
- A few worked examples
converting among hex, decimal, and binary (math preliminaries).
- Delay ×
bandwidth discussion and
examples.
- An example bridged LAN
illustrating the spanning tree algorithm and the bridge learning
algorithm.
- ATM AALs 3/4 and 5 example (section 3.3)
- On subnet numbers (section 4.3.1)
- A CIDR example (section 4.3.2)
- Tracking the progress of
data through a receiver's network layers (transport layer
homework, Spring 2008, 5/7/08) (section 5.2)
- TCP uses a sliding window to provide reliable communications. Each
end regularly updates the other regarding the amount of free space in
its receive buffer by sending back a 16b
Advertised
Window value. But this 16b field is too small, which leads to
the idea of scaling it
(section 5.2.4).
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