Bridges

1. K is identical shared-medium CSMA/CD LANs are bridged together with K-1 bridges in a linear configuration. Each LAN has the same physical length L in meters and propagation speed is V m/s. The maximum number of nodes on each segment is N, and the maximum transmission rate is R bps.
a. Which of these five parameters (K, L,V,N,R) have to be take into account to determine the minimum frame size that each node should put out.
b. Give an equation for the minimum frame size M in bits in terms of your parameters.