Ref. No.
: Ex/IT/PC/B/T/312/2022
Jadavpur University
Bachelor of Information technology
3rd Year 1st Semester Examination- 2022
Sub: Wireless and Mobile Networks
Full Marks: 70 Time: 4 hours 30 mins
(Start time: 3.00pm and Submission time: 7.30 pm)
Answer all questions
CO1 Q.1 Answer any one:
(10) a. (5+5)
i) Describe the steps used in a handoff process of a cellular system.
ii) What is the main physical reason for the failure of many MAC schemes known from wired networks? What is
done in wired networks to avoid this effect?
b. (5+5)
i) Comment on the services provided by 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G wireless systems?
ii) 33 MHz of bandwidth is allocated to a cellular system which uses two 25 KHz simplex channels to provide
full duplex voice and control channels, compute the number of channels available per cell if the system uses
four cell reuse.
CO2 Q.2 Answer any one:
(12) a. (7+5)
i) Two senders, A and B, want to send data. CDMA assigns the following chip sequences: Ac = (010011), Bc =
(110101). Sender A sends a 1 and B sends a 0 bit. A random noise (1, -1, 0, 1, 0, -1) is added to the transmitted
signal. What can the receiver detect for sender A and B respectively?
ii) Define the role of HLR and VLR in the wireless wide area network (WWAN) architecture.
b. (6+6)
i) Suppose in a CDMA system SNR is 30db, total available bandwidth is 200 MHz, number of users is 100.
What amount of bandwidth each user can enjoy?
ii) List three important entities in GSM architecture and explain their functions.
CO3 Q.3 Answer any one:
(12) a. (3+3+6)
i) Compare and contrast CSMA/CD with CSMA/CA.
ii) Describe a method for clock synchronization in infrastructure WLAN.
iii) With a suitable diagram describe how fairness problems regarding channel access solved in IEEE 802.11.
b. (4+4+4)
i) Explain with a diagram how roaming is performed in WLAN.
ii) Power is a real crisis for wireless and mobile devices. Describe a suitable power management scheme for
infrastructure WLAN.
iii) Describe how collision is avoided using NAV signal in WLAN.
CO4 Q.4 Answer any one:
(12) a. (3+4+5)
i) What do you mean by neighbor notification address auto-configuration in MIPv6?
ii) Describe a method to achieve soft handoff in MIPv4. How the triangular routing problem is solved in MIPv4?
iii) When and how is a mobility binding created between the correspondent nodes and mobile nodes? How does
mobility binding optimize the route?
b. (3+2+7)
i) What do you mean by pre-handoff and post-handoff mechanisms in MIP?
ii) What is the difference between the care-of-address and co-located care-of-address?
iii)In mobile IPv6, depending on whether or not the correspondent node has knowledge of the mobile’s current
care-of-address, its messages destined for the mobile in its current location are sent in different ways. 1.
Discuss how messages should be sent to the mobile in its current location. 2. What are the advantages of
mobile IPv6 compared with mobile IPv4?
CO5 Q.5 Answer any one:
(12) a. (3+3+3+3)
i) Compare source routing and hop-by-hop routing.
ii) Why is routing in multi-hop ad-hoc networks complicated, what are the special challenges?
iii) Why do you think in a very dynamic environment the performance of DSR will be much better than AODV?
iv) Explain how DSDV avoids count-to-infinity problem.
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b. (5+3+2+2)
i) Describe the following functionalities in DSR: Route discovery and Route maintenance
ii) Compare between DSDV, DSR and AODV.
iii) What do you mean by promiscuous receive mode?
iv) Name few example areas where ad-hoc networks can be used?
CO6 Q.6 Answer any one:
(12) a. (7+5)
i) What is the reaction of standard TCP in case of packet loss? In what situation does this reaction make senses
and why is it quite often problematic in case of wireless networks? Can the problems using TCP be solved by
replacing TCP with UDP? Where could this be useful and why is it quite often dangerous for network
stability?
ii) Describe the localization approach to improve TCP performance in wireless environment.
b. Write short notes on: (5+7)
i) When a mobile device crosses cell boundary, a handoff takes place. How does this fact affect TCP
performance?
ii) When a mobile device transmits TCP packets, most of the packets are lost due to high wireless loss rate. How
does this fact affect TCP performance? Describe a mechanism to improve TCP performance when such loss
occurs in the network.
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