[20 points] A Reno TCP station is now in the slow-start stat…

[20 points] A Reno TCP station is now in the slow-start state with cwnd = 4 MSS and ssthresh = 8 MSS. Show the values of cwnd, sstresh, and the current and the next state of the station after the following events: five consecutive nonduplicate ACKs arrived, followed by five duplicate ACKs, followed by two nonduplicate ACKs, and followed by a time-out.

[10 points] Assume a system uses five protocol layers. If th…

[10 points] Assume a system uses five protocol layers. If the application program creates a message of 1000 bytes and each layer (including the fifth and the first) adds a header of 20 bytes to the data unit, what is the efficiency (the ratio of application-layer bytes to the number of bytes transmitted) of the system?