Q. When buffers become full, link-level flow control provides feedback that prevents the transmission of additional packets, is known as

View solution

Q. To allow full access, either the physical links must be duplicated or the logical buffers associated with each link must be duplicated, resulting in

View solution

Q. When two nodes send at the same time, then the occuring problem is known as

View solution

Q. Adding a minimum of logk N ? 1 extra switch stages to the MIN in such a way that they mirror the original topology, the resulting network is

View solution

Q. Listening to detect collisions is called

View solution

Q. The unit of information sent or received is called a

View solution

Q. The passive and active components make up what is referred to as the network

View solution

Q. Notifying the sender to stop sending packets when the buffer becomes full and to resume later once it has room for more packets, the stated technique is known as

View solution

Q. Buffering of blocked packets can be done using first in, first out (FIFO) or circular queues, which can be implemented as

View solution

Q. The interconnection of multiple networks is called

View solution

Q. Switching that implements flow control at the packet level,is

View solution

Q. The interconnection structure across all the components including switches, links, and end node devices, is referred to as the network

View solution

Q. The tehnique that essentially control the flow of packets into the network by

View solution

Q. The sequence of steps the end node follows to commence and complete communication over the network is called a

View solution

Q. Output-buffered switches have the advantage of completely eliminating

View solution

Q. The black box network can be viewed as a simple

View solution

Q. Any network topology that provides this bisection bandwidth is said to have

View solution

Q. When the routing algorithm restricts the paths allowed by packets to only those that keep the global network state deadlock-free, it is known as

View solution

Q. Listening before transmission to avoid collisions is called

View solution

Q. Implementing parallel data paths between input and output ports is to move the buffers to the crossbar crosspoints, this switch architecture is usually referred as

View solution