CS5376: Communication Networks

Fall 2022

Quiz #3 Solution

• Full name only: ____________________________________

• Release date: Oct 14th, 2022 (Friday)
• Closed book; This should be done individually; No discussion/cheating; No chatting during the entire
exam period; Show all your work
• Total 5 pts

1. In TCP three-way handshaking, write three control messages exchanged between client and server for
establishing a connection.
[1 pt]
• SYN, SYN+ACK, ACK

2. The BitTorrent file distribution system uses [ ] as a method of seeking pareto

efficiency. It achieves a higher level of robustness and resource utilization than any currently known
cooperative technique.
[1 pt]
• tit-for-tat

3. [ ] plays a important role as doors through which data passes from the network
to the process and through which data passes from the process to the network.
[1 pt]
• socket

4. [True/False] An edge in the overlay network is a logical link from node A to node B and includes
intermediate routers.
[0.5 pts]
• False

5. [True/False] In a P2P file-sharing application, the peer that is receiving a file is typically the client and the
peer that is sending the file is typically the server.
[0.5 pts]
• True

6. [True/False] Under flooding protocol, when a peer receives a Ping message that was already received
before, it needs to broadcast the message to its neighbor peers to quickly disseminate the message over
the network.
[0.5 pts]
• False

7. [True/False] In TCP, each port number is a 16-bit number. The port numbers ranging from 0 to 1023
are called well-known port numbers that are reserved only for well-known application protocols, such as
HTTP.
[0.5 pts]
• True