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A group of 2m - 1 routers are interconnected in a centralized binary tree. With router at each tree node. Router I communicates with router J by sending a message to the root of the tree. If root then sends the message back down J, the mean path length will be

  • A.2 (m - 2)
  • B.2 (2m - 1)
  • C.m - 1
  • D.(2m - 1)/mJ

Answer: A

Correct answer: 2 (m - 2)

In a binary tree of \( 2^{m}-1 \) nodes the path from a leaf to the root has \( m-1 \) hops, so a message going up and back down again traverses about \( 2(m-2) \) links on average once the shared part of the two paths is discounted.

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