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COMP313 W1 - Computer Systems Test 3 Networking Total Marks: 30

This document provides a summary of a test on networking concepts. It includes 3 questions with multiple parts. Question 1 asks about multiplexing techniques and sources of delay in packet-switched networks. Question 2 asks to describe two ISO network protocol layers. Question 3 asks about differences between TCP and UDP, IP addressing schemes, interior and exterior gateway protocols, and the protocols involved in a web request. The document provides short answers and point values for each question part.

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COMP313 W1 - Computer Systems Test 3 Networking Total Marks: 30

This document provides a summary of a test on networking concepts. It includes 3 questions with multiple parts. Question 1 asks about multiplexing techniques and sources of delay in packet-switched networks. Question 2 asks to describe two ISO network protocol layers. Question 3 asks about differences between TCP and UDP, IP addressing schemes, interior and exterior gateway protocols, and the protocols involved in a web request. The document provides short answers and point values for each question part.

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COMP313 W1 – Computer Systems

Test 3 Networking
Total Marks: 30

The answers listed here are in a fairly terse form, and are not to be interpreted
as precisely acceptable answers from candidates. They are provided as a guide
for the marker. The mark allocations are indicative of the complexity of the
answers.

Question 1

1.1) Name and describe two multiplexing techniques used in circuit-switched net-
works to divide the bandwidth of a link into multiple channels.

1. Frequency Division Multiplexing (frequency modulation)


2. Time Division Multiplexing (round-robin time-slice)
[4]

1.2) The processing of data in packet-switched networks incur various types of delay
at each processing node. Name four sources of delay incurred in packet-switched
networks.

Queueing, Processing, Transmission, Propagation


[4]

[Total: 8]

Question 2

Choose two of ISO Standard network protocol layers and describe the functionality/responsibility
of each layer.

1
[Total: 6]

Question 3

3.1) What are the primary differences between TCP and UDP in the TCP/IP
protocol stack?

• TCP: reliable, connection/stream-based e.g. reliable file-transfer


• UDP: unreliable, packet-based e.g. ICMP messages (like ping)
[2]

3.2) Could IPv4 be redesigned to use hardware addresses (e.g. MAC) instead of the
32bit addresses currently used? Why?

No, not all transmission systems have the same hardware address structure.
[2]

3.3) Calculate the network number and host number of the Class B IP Address
146.230.41.59

Binary IP: 10010010.11100110.00101001.00111011


Class B Mask: 11111111.11111111.00000000.00000000
Network: 10010010.11100110.00000000.00000000
Host: 00000000.00000000.00101001.00111011
Network #: 1001001011100110 (Bin) 37606 (Dec)
2
Host #: 0010100100111011 (Bin) 10555 (Dec)

[4]

3.4) What is the chief advantage of CIDR IP addressing scheme over the original
classful addressing scheme?

More IP network address spaces with more variation in size.


[2]

3.5) How do Interior Gateway Protocols generally differ from Exterior Gateway
Protocols in terms of the information they share?

IGPs share link-state information within a MAN. EGPs share distance-vectors


within a WAN.
[2]

3.6) Which internet protocols are involved in requesting the web page:
http://www.google.com from your ISP connection at home? List the protocol names
and the respective roles that they play.

(any four in correct sequence)


1. DNS: lookup of IP Address for URL
2. HTTP: send HTTP GET request via TCP/IP socket
3. IS-IS: hop-to-hop IGP routing on ISP MAN/LANs
4. BGP: hop-to-hop EGP routing on Internet WAN
5. OSPF: hop-to-hop IGP routing on Google MAN/LANs
6. ARP: resolve hardware address of google webserver
[4]

[Total: 16]
FIN

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