April 2000
NI222 : NETWORKS AND THE INTERNET

QUESTION 3

Total Marks: 15 Marks

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(a)In a 1-way handshake host A sends a message to host B,and assumes that it is connected.Give a state diagram for this protocol,and a event diagram to show how it can fail.[4 marks ]

(b)Describe an advantage and a disadvantage of using a variable sliding window protocol rather than a normal sliding window protocol.[2 marks ]

(c)Explain how UDP preserves the message boundary defined by the application. [3 marks ]

(d)Convert the following event diagram into state diagram,using the standard
convention to distinguish outgoing messages from incoming messages,and to
describe outgoing messages sent in response to incoming messages.

[6 marks ]