Questions tagged [computer-networks]
Questions about problems that arise when you connect multiple computers to form a network.
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I am preparing for Bank PO and I require suggestion for buying theoritical books
I am preparing for Bank PO exams and I require some guidance about books which contain topics like MS Office, Network Systems(Star ,Bus etc.) and also computer history(generations and all). I would ...
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Which one of the following is NOT a function of transport layer?
A. routing
B. flow-control
C. congestion control
D. All of the above
My guess is flow-control only because routing and congestion is part of the network layer. The network layer is the third later and ...
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Why timeout in TCP is not a predefined fixed value?
Why timeout in TCP is not a predefined fixed value? I know there is a set value of 15 for a timeout value but I was asked why timeout in TCP is not a predefined fixed value which I couldn't find an ...
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Method for minimizing relays in a switching/steering network - combinatorics/CSP algorithm exists?
This question is borne from the electrical engineering world, so I first asked it there, but it's really more of an algorithm optimization problem that everyone here might be better suited to help ...
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Introductory books on Computer Networks
While I have come to learn some computer science, I find that I have next to no knowledge on computer networks.
Are there any good books at a basic level that cover some of the fundamental topics? ...
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What are the chances of fusing a quantum computer and a parallel computer and what potential dangers/ benefits does it bring?
From my EPQ research I came to know that quantum computers require certain conditions to function optimally such as: low temperature so that electrons do not get disturbed etc. I've also read a book ...
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internal DNS not resolving for a single, specific website
Our internal DNS servers (2019 standard) are setup without forwarders or conditional forwarders. Each server is set as its own IP address as its DNS server as well. We have no problems browsing to any ...
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Go back n on server side
I am implementing a UDP based go back n example and I am a bit stuck on how the server should respond to packets.
If my client has a sliding window of say 5, it can send 5 packets to the server ...
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Splitting a 1300 byte datagram when MTU is 500 bytes
Please consider the following multiple choice question about computer networking. The question from the following website:
The Website that the question came from
Question:
Consider sending a 1300 ...
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questions about queuing delay
I am learning computer network, and confused by the queuing delay. In my textbook, it says that when La/R approaches 1, and with random inter-arrival times, then the average queuing delay is closer to ...
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The size of a router's forwarding table
Consider a home network. Say three computers, a network printer and an internet connection. The three computers and the network printer will use the router to communicate with each
other.
I am ...
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Trying to understand a Router's Forwarding Table
I am trying to understand how a router's forward table works. As such, I am working
on the following problem.
Problem:
A router’s forwarding table has the following entries.
\begin{array} {|r|r|}\...
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If the probability of frame being lost is $P.$ Then, calculate the mean no. of transmission for the frame to make it success$.$ [closed]
Here the probability of frame being lost is $P.$ So the probability of frame reaching safely would be $(1-P).$
Now lets consider that the frame will reach safely in $k$-th transmission. That means ...
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How does concept of "redirection" works in ICMP?
I am trying to understand this figure, what it is trying to say?
What I already know?
Routing table is updated dynamically. However, for efficiency, hosts do not take part in the routing update ...
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Why does diskless system doesn't contain IP address?
I am studying about RARP.
What is the IP address of a given hardware address? Used by diskless systems to find their own IP address.
https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/bnr/ftp/f15_arp.pdf
So, why do ...
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How much byte do we need to record the route taken by a packet?
I am studying about IPV4 header.
For some options, such as one that records route a packet has taken, 40 bytes is far too small, making that option useless.
What does this mean?
What I know?
IHL ...
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Name for scheme and host of URL
Is there a specific name when we refer to just the scheme and host of URL, for example http://localhost of the URL ...
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How is this example sequentially consistent but not linearizable?
Background information that I know(But not understand with examples, I will be glad if you could explain it to me with examples)
A replicated service is said to be linearizable if for any executin ...
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Is ordering achieved by central server algorithm?
ME3 specifies that the first process be granted access before the second
Ordering-: Requests are granted in the order they were requested.
Colouris Distributed Systems book-:
The reader should ...
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Clock synchronization in distributed system-What is this slide trying to say?
For over an hour I am trying to decode this slide.
When each machine has its own clock, an event that occurred after another
event may nevertheless be assigned an earlier time.
Here event output.o ...
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Distributed Graph Consensus to fit a distribution?
$G$ is a strongly connected graph with nodes $V$ and edges $E$. Each node $v_i$ receives a sample $x_i$ from a Gaussian $\mathcal{N}(\mu,\sigma^2)$ with unknown mean and variance.
The objective is for ...
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How is this example related to Lamport clock theory? I can't relate algorithm example with the algorithm theory. Share some insights please [closed]
I have asked 1 type of question but I have asked that in many questions. So bear with me. My question is about 1 topic, I just didn't find it right to create separate questions for each of these ...
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If primary server's UTC source fails, how will synchronization be possible in NTP(network time protocol)?
If a primary server's UTC source fails, then it can become a stratum 2 secondary server. If a secondary server's normal source of synchronization fails or becomes unreachable, then it may synchronize ...
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What is the difference between content type and content description in MIME header?
I am following article which says-:
Content type-: defines the data present in body of message. eg-: text,image,video,application etc.
Content description-: It is used when body of message can't be ...
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Which overhead is smaller - function call or passing variables between processes?
the question is related to networking frameworks; callback-based approach requires you to call a callback function every time you receive a new data packet; this is not a good approach for high-load ...
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How does AH header in IPSec prevents replay attacks?
According to Tanenbaum's Modern operating systems,
The purpose of this field is to detect replay attacks. These sequence numbers may not wrap around. If all $2^{32}$ are exhausted, a new security ...
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How to solve modulo math equation in RSA algorithm?
$(3 \cdot d) \mod 8=1$. I know the answer is $d=3$ by common sense. But what is the mathematical approach to solve this problem? How do I solve this mathematically?
How do we get this value of 125^107 ...
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Why is TCP known as reliable protocol?
Is it because it uses 3 way handshaking, it is reliable? Or is it due to other reasons? Like due to congestion control, flow control and error control in TCP? Why do we call TCP as reliable?
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How many /20-subnets are in the network 130.149.0.0/16?
I'm new to networking so please bear with me. My textbook gives 4 as an answer, but I'm not sure I understand the question:
What's a "/20-subnet"? My understanding is that a network mask (/...
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Mutual Friends in a Network?
I always seem to have trouble finding a formal way to analyze this (be through proofs or whatever).
The problem statement is as such:
If A and B are friends, and B and C are friends, then A and C are ...
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Reference request on computer networks
I read about correctness of iterative and recursive algorithms.I need a sequence of book recommendations for learning mathematical aspects of computer networks and data communtions such as ...
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What are Cloud Infrastructure & Sevices, Distributed Computer Systems, and Internet-of-Things (IOT) Concepts and Applications?
I'm looking for experts to explain these Computer Science subjects that I have to choose in my university. Currently, it seems that IOT and Cloud Infrastructure are quite popular. What are their ...
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Can you ELI5 what makes it that people retain control over their data stored in SOLID servers?
Please, note that I'm not a dev and I'm not sure this is the right stackexchange, but really would like to understand this one.
So, I've recently discovered the SOLID project:
https://solidproject.org/...
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Encoding with Differential Manchester
I am trying to understand how encoding is done with differential Manchester, if you have a binary string, for example 10000000011010100010, how would we encode it?
or would I need more information to ...
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How does asynchronous operations save time in I/O
I'm reading a book CLR via C# which says how Windows does asynchronous I/O:
To read data from the file, ReadAsync internally allocates a Task object to represent the pending completion of the read ...
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While considering the wrap around time, why are the headers not considered?
In many texts and places as in here the wrap around time is found as :
$$\text{Wrap-Around Time = $\frac{2^{32} \text{ bytes}}{\text{Bandwidth in Bytes/sec}}$} $$
The wrap-around time is defined as ...
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What is the actual formula for the efficiency in CSMA/CD?
Let there are $n$ devices in the setup. Let each device sends data with a probability $p$.
Successful transmission for a slot (hence of the setup in general) occurs when only one device communicates.
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Confusion about the definition of "Exponential Average"
I was having doubt regarding the concept of "exponential averaging". Till now I have come across the concept twice and they seem to be quite similar (except that they have minor but sharp ...
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What is the difference between broadcast and gossip/epidemics?
Everything is in the title.
What is the difference between broadcast and gossip in the context of message-passing distributed systems?
According to Wikipedia, gossip and epidemic protocols/epidemics ...
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Can synchronous data transfer be used for transferring large data in case of computer architecture and organization?
I am learning computer architecture and organization.
I have this confusion, can synchronous data transfer be used for transferring large data in case of computer architecture and organization?
I ...
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Why does the author say that the sender in GBN protocol resends packet n to N(window size) when ack for packet n gets lost?
I was reading about the comparison of TCP with GBN protocol and I came across this text in the book Computer Networks: A Top Down Approach, 6th Edition by Jim Kurose on page 249;
Consider also what ...
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Is e-mail communication peer-to-peer?
In his networking textbook, the world-renowned computer science expert Tanenbaum says that e-mail communication is inherently peer-to-peer. Here is the paragraph from the book:
Peer-to-peer ...
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Tearing down the FSM description of congestion control
I was going through the text Computer Networking- A Top-Down Approach by Kurose and Ross, there I found subtleties with the TCP congestion control FSM which is shown below:
Mainly I am having ...
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Is peer to peer and client-server a type of network or protocol?
Is peer to peer and client-server a type of network or protocol? Because my book mentions this under types of network heading under the subsection of "Types of network on the basis of component ...
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How to use butterfly network for data copy?
I know butterfly networks (and benes as well) allow routing a packet from any input to any output node. Congestion is $\sqrt{n}$ but with bene it can be $1$.
Now assume that in a butterfly network, ...
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About the paper Privacy-preserving in association rule mining using an improved discrete binary artificial bee colony
I don't understand two parts in this paper:
The min notion on page 4 line 357 (equation 10d): I understand this as to find all the $M_{10}$, $M_{11}$, $M_{01}$ first and then try to minimize the ...
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Problem on probability given frame sizes and their error correction probabilities in a wireless system
I am stuck trying to solve the following question for a while
Bit error rate after demodulation in an wireless system = 1.0e-03.
The system has 4 possible frame sizes – 48 bytes, 96 bytes, 72 bytes
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How to reconcile the different definitions of asynchrony?
There are 3 definitions of asynchrony that I know of:
In event-based programming, asynchrony refers to the execution of tasks in a non-sequential way, which may involve creating another thread. For ...
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multicasting in ethernet
I am learning this topic and there is a concept that LSB ( bit ) of MSB ( byte ) should be set to 1 for multicasting . But why we need to do so as multicast address is unique so why can't we assign ...
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What are overlay & underlaying topologies in DHT?
We are covering Distributed Hash Tables in my "Networks" class and one of the subsections is about the improvements that can be made to increase the performance of the chord. Here, the ...
