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Data Communication Network QB

This document outlines the topics that will be covered across 6 units related to data communication networks. The units cover a wide range of topics including network topologies, protocols like TCP, IP, and ATM, routing algorithms, addressing, and more. Specific topics mentioned include LAN, WAN, OSI model, circuit switching, error control protocols, MAC protocols, routing, IPv4, IPv6, and network devices.

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Data Communication Network QB

This document outlines the topics that will be covered across 6 units related to data communication networks. The units cover a wide range of topics including network topologies, protocols like TCP, IP, and ATM, routing algorithms, addressing, and more. Specific topics mentioned include LAN, WAN, OSI model, circuit switching, error control protocols, MAC protocols, routing, IPv4, IPv6, and network devices.

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Data Communication Network

Unit 1

1. List out the types of network based on geographical coverage along with distance
between inter processor or nodes and then explain LAN and WAN
2. Explain in brief the architecture of MESH, Star, Bus Topology
3. Explain the Circuit Switching with the help of its three phases and vertical sequence
diagram.
4. Draw and Explain the layered architecture of OSI Model. Classify them into user friendly
and network friendly categories. How it is different from TP/IP.
5. Explain Mesh topology with diagram. Enlist the advantages and disadvantages of Mesh
topology. If a company has 225 nodes to be connected with Mesh topology, calculate
number of physical connections and I/O ports required.
6. Explain Switched Virtual Circuit and Permanent Virtual Circuit.
7. Compare LAN, MAN, WAN with reference to :
a. Area b. Security c. Speed of Operation d. Transit time e. Response
time f. Traffic Congestion

Unit 2

1. What do you mean by Process to Process, End to End and Hop to Hop Delivery.
2. What is the need to have flow control procedure in Networking? What is error control?
Also Explain Stop and Wait Protocol with reference to following cases
a. Data is lost b. Acknowledge is lost c. Acknowledge is delayed
3. For GB4 protocol, if transmission time is 1ms and Propagation time is 49.5ms, Calculate
the channel capacity and efficiency. If every 5th frame is rejected and retransmitted,
compute the number of Transmissions required in sending 10 frames.
4. Compare Stop & Wait ARQ, Go Back N ARQ and Selective repeat ARQ with reference
to efficiency, Buffer size, Retransmissions, Window sizes, CPU performance and
Bandwidth requirements.
5. Explain the frame structure of HDLC protocol.
6. Obtain the sender window and receiver window with frame flow illustration considering
following examples, assume same window size of 5 at both ends
a. Frame 0 is sent, For frame 0 ack1 is used
b. Frame 1,2,3are sent, For frames 1,2,3 ack4 is used
c. Frame 4 is sent, For frame 4 ack5 is used
d. Frame 5,6,7 are sent
7. What is the maximum and minimum window size at sender and receiver side in GO Back
N ARQ and Selective repeat ARQ for m=2 and m=3 where m is in bits used to allocate
buffer space at both the sides
8. Calculate the sender and receiver window size to elaborate normal operation with
accumulative acknowledgement Ack 3 and next Ack 6of sliding window flow control
with considering both window size of 2k -1 where K is 3 bit field used to assign sequence
numbers to the data frame and ack frame.

Unit 3

1. What is channel allocation. What is FDMA, TDMA and CDMA. These protocols belong
to which layers. List the queries for which access control protocols are required.
2. Why there is a possibility of collision even after sensing the channel. Explain with
suitable example of CSMA/ CD.
3. Define vulnerable time for pure and slotted ALOHA. Show that the throughput of slotted
ALOHA is double that of Pure ALOHA.
4. A network using TDM access control mechanism has transmission time is 1ms and
Propagation time is 1ms. Calculate the efficiency of channel. If bandwidth of the network
is 4 mbps, determine the effective bandwidth. If each packet needs to be sent with 2 kbps
bandwidth, calculate the maximum number of packets that can be sent without collision.
5. Discuss the working of CSMA/CD for
a. Tt > Tp (Normal Case)
b. Tt>=2Tp (Worst Case)
6. A slotted ALOHA channel has an average 10% of the slots idle.
a. What is offered traffic G?
b. What is the throughput?
c. Is the channel overloaded?
7. Compare Persistent CSMA and Non persistence CSMA. Also explain persistent CSMA
and Non persistent CSMA,CSMA/ CD.
8. Calculate the throughput if the offered load is 0.5 to 1.5 in steps of 0.2 and obtain the
performance curves.
9. Explain the classification of CSMA and explain P persistent CSMA.
Unit 4

1. Compare Link state routing algorithm and Flooding algorithm.


2. Why multiple LAN are better than Single big LAN in an organization. Describe the
various networking devices with their place of operation.
3. Explain Leaky bucket algorithm. Compare it with token bucket.
4. Compare
a. Repeaters and Hubs
b. Bridges and switches
c. Routers , application and transport gateways
5. Explain Centralized and distributed routing.
6. Explain Flooding and Distance routing algorithms
7. Find the shortest path between node A and H for the following figure by applying
Dijkstra’s algorithm. Show each step of output
8.

Unit 5

1. What is ATM. What is ATM Cell, Compare Ethernet frame format and ATM Cell
format.
2. Describe ATM reference model.
3. Explain IEEE 802.4 token bus.
4. Explain IEEE 802.5 token ring.
5. Discuss various address resolution techniques.
6. Explain ISDN and BISDN. What are the advantages of ISDB and BISDN.
7. Discuss the concept of virtual circuit and Virtual path.
8. Explain the traffic and congestion control framework of ATM.
Unit 6

1. Compare TCP and UDP


2. Explain the format of typical IP datagram header. What is datagram forwarding?
3. Draw and explain TCP header format.
4. Classify the IP address. What is the number of users per class. Also find the class of
following IP addresses.
a. 125.50.20.167
b. 192.168.0.50
5. Explain the concept of subnetting and supernetting. State default mask and Subnet mask
for each IP address class. What is the purpose of default mask and subnet mask.
6. Explain IPv4 header format.
7. Compare IPV4 and IPV6 using frame formats.
8. Represent the following IP address in dotted decimal. Also find the clss of each IP
address.
a. 10011001 00001010 00000011 00001111
b. 11000001 10010000 11000000 11110000
c. 00000001 00010110 11001000 00001010
d. 11100011 00000011 00000110 00001000
e. 10110100 10101010 00000000 00000010
9. How the IP addresses are represented in binary and doted decimal formats.
10. Why IP needs assistance of other protocols like ARP, RARP, OSPF etc. Also explain the
role of ARP and RARP.
11. What kind of services is provided by TCP and UDP. Why TCP is referred as
Transmission protocol

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