Question Bank

S.no UNIT-I

1. List the five basic types of communication network that are used to provide
multimedia services.

2. Explain with neat diagram of multipoint conferencing modes and types of conferencing.

3. Explain multimedia data networks. Differentiate between multimedia and hypermedia.

4. What is multimedia? State the basic form of representation of text, an image,

audio and video.

5. Define the term multimedia communication. State the basic form of

representing different media types.

6. Define multimedia. The term “multimedia “composed of many media types.

Explain them.

7. List different types of multimedia networks. Explain any two networks in detail.

8. Explain with neat diagrams, the interactive television application for both cable
and satellite network.

9. Explain briefly interactive applications over the internet.

10. Explain the principle of operation of packet switched network.

11. With the help of a diagram, describe the main components of PSTN and show
how a high speed modem provides multiple services in addition to basic
telephony.

12. Explain the working principle of circuit-mode and packet-mode of operation of

multimedia networks. List out salient features of each type of networks.

13. Explain why most data networks operate in a packet mode. Hence, explain why
services involving audio and video are supported.

14. Identify and explain the meaning of the key QOS parameters associated
with, i) Circuit switching ii) packet switching.

15. Explain the working of CO packet switched network including routing table.

16. Briefly explain the following operational modes of a communication

channel i) Duplex ii) Multicast.
17. With a neat diagram, explain how voice mail and teleconferencing is supported in
relation to speech only interpersonal communication involving both public
(PSTN/ISDN) and private network. Also, explain the role of voice mail server and audio
bridge.

18. Determine the propagation delay associated with the following communication
channels(i)A connection through a private telephone network of 1 km(ii)A connection
through a PSTN of 200 km(iii)A connection over a satellite channel of
50,000km.Assume that the velocity of propagation of a signal in the case of (i) and (ii)
is 2x10​8 ​m/s and in the case of (iii) is 3x10​8 ​m/s.

19. A webpage of 10Mbytes is being retrieved from a web server. Neglecting server and
trunk delays, calculate the time to transfer the page over a (i)PSTN modem operating
at 28.8kbps(ii)Primary rate ISDN access line of 1.5 Mbps(iii)Cable modem operating at
27 Mbps.

20. Derive the maximum block size that should be used over a channel which has mean
BER probability of 10​-4​if the probability of a block containing an error and hence
being discarded is to be 10​-1​.

S.no UNIT-II

1. Define three types of texts. Discuss the hypertext that enables integrated set
of documents.

2. Explain different types of texts in detail.

3. Describe raster scan operation associated with TV/ computer monitor.

4. With the aid of a diagram, explain how a color image is captured within a camera
scanner using each of the following methods (i) Single image sensor (ii) A single
image sensor with filters (iii) Three separate image sensors. Include in your
explanations the term photo sites and CCDs and the role of the readout register.

5. Derive the bit rate and the memory requirements to store each frame that results
from the digitization of both a 525 line and 625 line systems, assuming a 4:2:0
formats. Also find the total memory required to store a 2 hour movie/video.

6. Explain the principle of operation of PCM speech codec with a block diagram.
Also explain compressor and expander.
 7. With the aid of a diagram, explain how an image produced by a scanner or digital
camera is captured and stored within a computer memory?

8. Assuming the bandwidth of a speech signal is from 50 Hz through to 10 kHz and that of
a music signal is from 15 Hz through to 20 kHz, derive the bit rate that is generated by
the digitization procedure in each case assuming the Nyquist sampling rate is used
with 12 bits per sample for the speech signal and 16 bits per sample for the music
signal. Derive the memory required to store a 10 minutes passage of stereophonic
music.

9. Describe 4:2:2 and 4:2:0 digitization formats.

10. Explain the following: i) quantization intervals ii) Hypertext iii) Raster scan
principles iv) Aspect ratio v) 4:2:2 format.

11. With a neat diagram explain audio/sound synthesizer.

12. Explain interlaced scanning principle with a diagram.

13. Find :(i) The storage capacity of CD-ROM to store a 60 minute multimedia title
assuming the CD-DA standard. (ii)The time to transmit a 30 second portion of the
title using a transmission channel of 1.5 Mbps bit rate.

S.no UNIT-III

1. Explain the meaning of the following terms, relating to compression (i) Lossless and
Lossy compression (ii) Source and Entropy encoding.

2. Code the given string”ABACADABACADABACABAB” using Huffman coding. Derive

Huffman code tree. Determine the savings in transmission band width over normal
ASCII and binary coding.

3. With the help of a diagram, explain the main stages of operation of JPEG encoder
and decoder in detail.

4. Compare the arithmetic coding and Huffman coding. A message comprising of a string
of characters with probabilities e=0.3, n=0.3, t=0.2, w=0.1,. =0.1 is to be encoded. The
message is “went”. Compute the arithmetic code word.

5. Explain Lempel Ziv coding and Lempel ziv Welsh coding.

 6. Explain decoding algorithm of static Huffman coding with a flow chart. A series of
messages is to be transferred between two computers over a PSTN.The messages
comprise just the characters A through H.Analysis has shown that the probability of
each character is as follows:

A and B=0.25 and D=0.14, E, F, G, and H=0.055.Use Huffman coding to derive a

codeword set and construct the corresponding Huffman code tree. Derive the
number of bits required for the string”AABBCAD” using the derived codewords.

7. Explain transform encoding procedure related to source encoding.

8. Explain GIF image compression principle.

9. Explain the features of TIFF.

10. Initially a dictionary containing only three characters with code as

follows: Code String

1X

2Y

3Z

Now if the input string is XYXYYXYZXYXYYX.Use LZW compression algorithm, find

the output code. Also show that it is truly lossless algorithm by using LZW
decoder.

S.no UNIT-IV

1. With the help of a neat diagram, explain LPC encoder and decoder.

2. Explain third order predictive DPCM signal encoder and decoder.

3. With a neat diagram, explain video compression principles. With a neat diagram
explain the B frame encoding.

4. Explain H.261 Encoding Formats.

 5. Explain the error tracking procedures of H.263 with neat diagrams.

6. Discuss the various steps that are required in encoding P-frame assuming 4:1:1
digital format.

7. Explain linear predictive coding technique of audio compression.

8. Explain briefly Px64 video compression standard.

9. Define (i) Group of pictures(ii)Prediction span. Explain different frame types.

10. Give the meaning of motion estimation and compensation, with respect to
video compression

11. Explain MPEG-4 coding principles with the help of a neat diagram.

12. A digitized video is to be compressed using MPEG-I standard. Assuming a frame

sequence of IBBPBBPBBPBBI…. And average compression ratios of 10:1(I),20:1(P)and
50:1(B),derive the average bit rate that is generated by the encoder for NTSC
digitization format with y=352x240 and c​b​,c​r​=176x120.

S.no UNIT-V

1. What is transparent bridge? With a neat diagram, explain transparent

bridge architecture and its application example.

2. Explain in detail token ring network frame formats and field description.

3. Explain in detail with diagrams, the token ring configurations, frame formats,
frame transmission and reception with priority operation.

4. Explain in detail, with diagrams LAN protocols and protocol framework.

5. Explain CSMA/CD and principle of operation of token ring.

6. Explain FDDI networking components, wiring schematic building.

7. Explain fast Ethernet and switched fast Ethernet in detail.

8. Explain CSMA/CD MAC method, used in IEEE 802.3 standard.

 9. The FDDI ring configuration has 2 km ring with 20 stations.(i)Derive the ring latency
in both time and bits, assuming a usable bit rate of 100 mbps.(ii)Maximum
obtainable throughput(iii)Maximum access delay.Assume,station latency=1 ms and
TTRT=4ms.

10. Discuss the framework used for defining various LAN standards. Explain each
layer briefly.

S.no UNIT-VI

1. Explain with a neat diagram IP adjunct protocol.

2. Explain IPV6 datagram format.

3. Explain the operation of internet with a neat diagram of protocol associated

networking components. Also, explain IP adjunct protocols with a neat diagram.

4. What is QoS support for internet application? Explain the control mechanism used
in each class to meet Qos requirement.

5. The administrator of a campus LAN is assigned a single class B IP address

150.10.0.0.Assuming the LAN comprises 100 subnets, each of which is connected to
FDDI backbone network; using a subnet router, define a suitable address mask for the
site if the maximum number of hosts connected to each subnet is 70.

6. Explain the operation of ARP and RARP.

7. Explain fragmentation and reassembly in the internet in detail.

8. Explain IP address formats.

9. Describe IP datagram/Packet format with a diagram.

10. Explain IP address classes with the help of a neat diagram. Identify a
particular application for each class.

S.no UNIT-VII

1. Explain ATM adaptation layer 1 &2 with neat format.

 2. Explain with a schematic diagram of ATM LAN.

3. Explain the principles of routing in an ATM network with a neat schematic.

4. Explain the unicast and multicast protocol architecture with reference to ATM.

5. Explain the general structure of ATM switch.

6. Explain the ATM protocol architecture.

7. Explain the communication across ATM network.

8. Explain classic IP over ATM(IPOA)LAN.

9. Explain LAN emulation in ATM.

10. Explain general structure of an ATM switch and write switch architecture diagrams
for delta switch matrix and fully connected matrix switch.

S.no UNIT-VIII

1. Explain TCP/IP protocol suite with a neat diagram.

2. Explain the TCP connection establishment procedure for client server model and
simultaneous model. List the difference in control procedure of TCP as compared
to HDLC.

3. Give the packet format of RTP and describe its usages.

4. Explain RTP/RTCP.

5. Explain UDP datagram format along with UDO header fields and fields used in
pseudo header for computation of checksum.

6. Explain the real time transport protocol and real time transport control protocol
usage and package format.

7. In relation to the RTP packet format, explain briefly the meaning and use of the
following fields i) CC and CSRCC ii) M and payload type iii) Sequence number.
8. Explain the meaning of the following terms in relation to the operation f
TCP: i)Reliable stream service ii) Segment iii) Maximum segment size

State why both flow control and congestion control procedures are required

with TCP.