Q. Paths that have an unbounded number of allowed nonminimal hops from packet sources, this situation is referred to as

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Q. The type of network that is used for interprocessor and processor-memory interconnections within multiprocessor, are

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Q. The entire routing path is precomputed by the source, possibly by table lookup, placed in the packet header for

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Q. The term of a transmission medium that refers to the range of frequencies for which the attenuation per unit length is

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Q. A long linear pipeline without staging in which signals propagate as waves through the network transmission medium, the function is refered as

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Q. The effective bandwidth delivered end-to-end by the network to an application is upper bounded by the minimum across all three potential bottleneck areas:

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Q. Aggregate bandwidth refers to the total data bandwidth supplied by the network, and

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Q. In a switch pipeline, a single packet header indicates how to process all of the internal data path physical transfer units also known as

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Q. Some network interfaces include extra hardware to offload protocol processing from the host computer, such as

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Q. Packets that lose arbitration have to be buffered, which increases packet latency by some

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Q. Schemes that reduce traffic when the collective traffic of all nodes is too large for the network to handle, refers to

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Q. Many network interface cards implement hardware timers as well as hardware support to split messages into packets and reassemble them, compute the

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Q. When the number of switch ports is equal to or larger than the number of devices, this simple network is refered to as

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Q. Distributing the network switches among the end nodes, which then become

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Q. To pipeline packet transmission across the circuit using staging at each hop along the path, a technique known as

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Q. No blocking occurs as links are not shared among paths to unique destinations, the crossbar, therefore, is

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Q. No more than three nodes in a commercial systems are known as

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Q. When requested network paths are available for packets, it is known as

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Q. The sum of time of flight and transmission time, is called a

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Q. The time for the packet to pass through the network, not including time of flight is known as

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