Assuming TCP Reno is the protocol experiencing the behavior shown in the figure below and answer the following questions. For all questions, you should provide a brief discussion justifying your answer.

a) Identify the intervals of time when TCP slow start is operating. b) Identify the intervals of time when TCP congestion avoidance is operating. c) After the 16th transmission round, is segment loss detected by a triple duplicate ACK or by a timeout? d) After the 22nd transmission round, is segment loss detected by a triple duplicate ACK or by a timeout? e) What is the initial value of ssthresh at the first transmission round? f) What is the value of ssthresh at the 18th transmission round? g) What is the value of ssthresh at the 24th transmission round? h) Assuming a packet loss is detected after the 26th round by the receipt of a triple duplicate ACK, what will be the values of the congestion window size and of ssthresh?

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