Practice - Traffic Characteristics: Understanding Network Demands
Practice Questions
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What does a Poisson process describe?
💡 Hint: Think about whether arrivals can be predicted or not.
Define bursty traffic in networking.
💡 Hint: Consider sudden spikes in data transmission.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a Poisson process assume about packet arrival?
💡 Hint: Think about predictions in arrival rates.
Is bursty traffic easier or harder to manage than smooth traffic?
💡 Hint: Consider how quickly current traffic can change.
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Challenge Problems
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If a network link has a service time of 0.01 seconds and experiences an arrival rate of 100 packets per second, calculate the traffic intensity. Discuss how increasing the arrival rate to 150 packets would impact system behavior.
💡 Hint: How does approaching capacity impact a system?
Analyze how varying service time distributions (e.g., longer average service times) might impact overall network performance, especially concerning packet loss and waiting time.
💡 Hint: Consider how packet length fluctuates and its relation to service rates.
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