Suppose you are designing a sliding window protocol for a 1-Mbps point-to-point link to the stationary satellite

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Suppose you are designing a sliding window protocol for a 1-Mbps point-to-point link to the stationary satellite evolving around the Earth at 3×104 km altitude. Assuming that each frame carries 1 kB of data, what is the minimum number of bits you need for the sequence number in the following cases? Assume the speed of light is 3 × 108

meters per second.

(a) RWS = 1.

(b) RWS = SWS.

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Computer Networks A Systems Approach

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Authors: Larry L. Peterson, Bruce S. Davie

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