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Authors:
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross
Chapter:
The Network Layer
Exercise:
Review
Question:9 | ISBN:9780132856201 | Edition: 6

Question

Describe how packet loss can occur at input ports. Describe how packet loss at input ports can be eliminated (without using infinite buffers).

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Answer

The following steps are packet loss can occur at input ports:

  • Routers contains input ports. It is using to move packets through forwarding table.
  • The forwarding table maintaince each router as well as a duplicate copy in the routing process with each input port.
  • If the size of the queue is large or slow speed, then the packet loss can occurred at input ports.

The following steps are eliminate the packet loss:

  • Need to increase the speed at least by number of input ports times.
  • Need to reduce the queue size.
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