Question 56
A signal travels 6000 km at 2$\times 10^8 m/s$. What is the propagation delay?
$T_p = 6\times 10^6/(2\times 10^8) = 0.03 s = 30 ms.$
A signal travels 6000 km at 2$\times 10^8 m/s$. What is the propagation delay?
$T_p = 6\times 10^6/(2\times 10^8) = 0.03 s = 30 ms.$
A 1500-byte packet crosses a 10 Mbps link. What is its transmission delay?
$1500 bytes = 12,000 bits; 12,000/10^7 = 1.2 ms.$
A link has rate 50 Mbps and one-way propagation delay 10 ms. What is its one-way BDP?
$BDP = 50\times 10^6 \times 0.01 = 500,000 bits.$
If packet size is fixed, increasing link bandwidth directly reduces which delay?
Transmission delay L/R decreases as the link rate R increases.
Which component of delay is caused by router packet-processing operations such as header checking?
Processing delay includes tasks such as header examination and error checking.