COMPUTER NETWORKING

TRANSPORT LAYER

INTRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Let the size of congestion window of a TCP connection be 32 KB when a timeout occurs. The round trip time of the connection is 10 msec and the maximum segment size used is 1 KB. The time taken (in msec) by the TCP connection to get back to 32 KB congestion window is ____
A
200ms
B
300ms
C
320ms
D
120ms
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The time taken (in msec) by the TCP connection to get back to 32 KB congestion window is 1100 ms. IISc, Bangalore will released official notification for GATE CS 2024 exam.

Detailed explanation-2: -Each packet consists of 2000 bytes. AT some point of time, the connection is in slow start phase with a current transmit window of 4000 bytes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Explanation: In slow-start algorithm, the size of the congestion window increases exponentially until it reaches a threshold.

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