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M. C. S. E. Examination, 2004

This document contains an exam for the MCSE certification with questions covering various topics in computer communication networks. The exam contains 8 questions testing knowledge of: 1) Networking concepts like subnets, queueing systems, and protocols. 2) Communication protocols including synchronous vs asynchronous, error detection, and sliding window protocols. 3) Local area network technologies like Ethernet, token ring, and their collision handling methods. 4) Broadband networks including B-ISDN, ATM, layers/functions. 5) Wireless networking concepts such as cellular networks and ALOHA protocols. 6) Network devices like repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches and their

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M. C. S. E. Examination, 2004

This document contains an exam for the MCSE certification with questions covering various topics in computer communication networks. The exam contains 8 questions testing knowledge of: 1) Networking concepts like subnets, queueing systems, and protocols. 2) Communication protocols including synchronous vs asynchronous, error detection, and sliding window protocols. 3) Local area network technologies like Ethernet, token ring, and their collision handling methods. 4) Broadband networks including B-ISDN, ATM, layers/functions. 5) Wireless networking concepts such as cellular networks and ALOHA protocols. 6) Network devices like repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches and their

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Ex/MCSE/4251/30/2004

M. C. S. E. EXAMINATION, 2004
1st Semester

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORK

Time : Three hours Full Marks : 100


Answer any five questions.
Answer should be brief and to the point.

1 a) What is a subnet? “A WAN subnet has a 2-level


hierarchy” — explain. 4
b) Explain the meaning of each of the following terms in
the context of the OSI Reference Model :
Layer, service, protocol, peer process, interface, SDV,
PDU, ICI. 8

c) State what is meant by a A/B/m/K/M queueing system.


4

d) Assuming that packets whose lengths are exponentialIy


distributed with a mean of 500 m bytes arrive in a
poisson manner at a concentrator (modelled as a
M/M/1 queueing system) at the rate of 150 packets/sec.
Assuming the capacity of the outgoing link to be 1
Mbps, determine, the mean queueing delay and the
mean time (total time) spent in the concentrator. 4

[Turn Over]
(2)

2. a) Explain why synchronous communication of data is


more efficient than asynchronous communication. 3

b) What is data-transparent communication? How is it


achieved? 4

c) Assuming the generator polynomial to the x3 + x + 1


and the incoming frame data to be 1001101110,
determine whether the receiver will accept or reject the
frame. 4

d) Computer A sends 1000 byte frames (including all non-


data or overhead bytes) to computer B over a 200 Km, 1
Mbps channel, using a stop-and-wait protocol. The
efficiency of the protocol is .78, neglecting frame
retransmissions time for transmission of Ack frames and
frame processing delays at the two computers.
Assuming the signal propagation velocity to be 2.0 × 105
Km/sec, determine the number of overhead bytes in the
frame.

e) How will you view or characterize the “go back n” and


the “selective repeat” protocols as sliding window
protocols? 3

3 a) Clearly explain the concepts of “CSMA”, “CD” and


“1-persistent” in the ethernet protocol. 5

b) Why do collisions occur in the ethernet inspite of carrier


sensing? 3
(3)

c) How does the collision detect feature improve the


ethernet protocol efficiency?
d) Explain the roles of the Preamble and the Pad fields in
the ethernet frame format. 4
c) 50 computers are connected in a 10 Mbps token ring
LAN. The average distance between two neighbouring
computers is 20 metres. Each station captures a passing
token with a probability of .3 and holds it for 3 msec
on the average. Assuming the signal propagation
velocity to be 2.0 × 105 km/sec, determine the walk
time and the average scan time.
4. a) What is B-ISDN? What is ATM? Why is ATM more
suitable than STM (synchronous transfer mode) for
building a B-ISDN network?
b) What are the important advantages of ATM over IP?
3

c) What are the different layers and sub-layers in the ATM


network? Briefly discuss their functions. 8
d) Explain the use of VPI and VCI in the forwarding of
ATM cells.
5 a) Describe the salient features of a cellular wireless
network. 6
b) In an infinite population slotted ALOHA network, time
is slotted in units of 10 msec and the total average load
on the system is 80 packets/sec.

[Turn Over]
(4)

i) What is the throughput of the system? 4


ii) What is the chance of success in the third attempt?
2
c) Explain the principle of spread spectrum
communication. 8

6. a) Out line the basic functions of a Repeater, a Hub, a


Bridge and a Ethernet Switch. 8

b) Briefly explain the principle of operation of a


Transparent Bridge. 8

c) Explain why architecture of the Internet is called “quasi-


hierarchical”.

7 a) Briefly describe the nature of services received (not


provided) by each layer in the Internet. 6
b) “CIDR-ized addressing and IPv6 addressing respectively
provides a short-term and a long-term solution to the
IP address scarcity problem”— explain clearly. 5

c) Determine the net-id for the CIDR-ized address


25.18.33.7/20 and 35.27.65.1 1/18. 2
d) Explain the concepts of port and socket. 2

e) Outline the special problems encountered in


implementing the sliding window protocol in the TCP
compared to those encountered in the data link layer.
5
(5)

8. Write short notes on any four 5×4


i) CDMA principle
ii) Link stale routing
iii) Differences between FDDI. LAN and token ring LAN
iv) Routing in the Internet
v) DHCP
vi) NAT

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