KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOG) ee COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING Second Semester Examination, May, 2014 Third Year TE 384: Switching Engineering TIME: 3 hrs git INDEXNO: 5 REGS |/ Program of study: EE/TE Attempt all questions Section A 35 marl Shade clearly the right answer from the options provided on the MEQ snsvet sheet provided, all calculations must be done in the answer booklet provided. Also circle the ievect answer on the question paper and submit both the question paper and the answer bookdet. Relevant Erlang B tables is provided 1. Trunks are the lines that run between ‘A, Subsoribers and exchanges B. Switching system and power plant C. Local area network (D) Exchanges Cae 2, Which of the following is an example of a cireuit-switched network A, Internet o The fixed teleph voIP D, Telegraph network 3. Spectrum regulation in Ghana is done by th @) NCA B, ETSI Cc. ATU D. ITU 4, Which is the odd one out? fA. Tandem exchange (B) Transit exchange C. Local exchange D. Intermediate exchange pewCoel363-14eas is known as Calls between two exchang Ay Inter exchange calls B. Bi exchange calls C. Intra exchange calls D. Two way exchange ca 6. For a non-blocking cross bar configuration, taking N as the number of subseriters , there umber of cross points and ....... number of switches for establishing when all the subscribers are engaged For two stage nel work the total switching elements for M inlets with r blocks and WV outlets with s blocks is given by @) Ms + Nr B. Ns + Mr MN(r+s) D. (M+N)rs 8. Aswitching can direct A. Analog @ digi C. Continuous D. Semi - anal mis di tal when the in or signals uit to and out from the swit system network 9. Busy hour traffic is the A. Maximum average simultaneous traffic (B) Traffic during, busy hour CT. Traffic when all subscribers are eng: D. Duration of maximum calls d 10. A CENTRED the is a business customer service offering supported by switching equipment in QB) Central off C. Toll exchange D. Gateway exchange Qs PewCoe/363-14ete 11. Locations where all lines and other re also referred to as the line side of the A. Digital Distribution Frame B. Trunk Distribution Frame C. Digital Cross Connect @ Main Distribution Frame lated links are cross-connected to a central ¢ switch is known as .. g 12, Bit interleaving is used in ..... PDH B. SDH C. SONET D. FDM. 13, What is the area code of the Upper West Region in Ghana? A. 030 B. 021 & 037 D. 039 14. With respect to country codes, what is the first digit of countries in the Former Soviet Unior Ave B. c\ 15, The carrier spacing in FDM is . GQ) 3.4 kz B, 3.0 kHz C. 4.0 kHz D. 0.3 kHz uw 16. All multiplex equipment in the FDM hierarchy uses ........ modulation SSB ; DS-SSB C. SD-SSB D. USSB 7. The E1 frame contains .18, An El is equivalent to ......... voice circuits A. 32 ge 30. 480 D. 120 19. AT2 is equivalent to ......... voice circuits A 24 30 48 BS 6 30. A TMSS with 16 time slots on each of its 4 physical inlet/outlet is equivalent 10 = space switch A, 16— 4x4 B. 8-8x8 C, 4- 16x16 D. 1- 64x64 2]. Which of the following is NOT a limitation of manual exchanges? A. Language Depe: 99. tn subscriber loop signaling, which of the following is NOT a primary type oF supenisory signal? A. Seizure B. Busy circuit C. Ringing D. Disconnect 23, The operation of a crossbar switch depends on energizing ‘A. Two horizontal lines B. Two vertical lines @ A vertical line and « horizontal line 1D. Two diagonal lines je efossbar is .........-.. switching configuration Non-blocking Blocking C. Semi-blocking D. None of the above 24,Bs. ia 5 poy: Ese subseribers the number of cross points needed is B. 2,500 nod go CHD. qa se C. 4,950 n “eS oe D. 1,225 ‘Use the information below to answer Questions 25 = 26 | There is no redundancy | I Number of cross points is reduced significantly TII Cross points are inefficiently used IV The network is blocking | V. The network is non-blocking 26, Which of the following are features of a single stage network? A. 10 & UI B. LU&lv 1M&Vv ele ¥ 27. Which of the following are features of a multistage network? s when a single stage 50 by 50 switch is “98, What is the PERCENTAGE reduction in cross point replaced by a two stage 5 by 5 switches? phe 330. In distributed S proces: (© exchange control functions may be decomposed for distributea snally or vertically 1 horizontally horizontally ~ 31. Ina TMS system: where each XAM stores the name of the /P to whieh its O/P is 'y time slot is known a5 ......-2er«+-- - control connected to ine A. Space oriented B, Time oriented C. Row oriented @) Column oriented 32, Time-Space-Time switching is when data is switched A. Across time slots B. Physical connections C. Potentially configured in each time slot @® Across time slots and physical connections 33, What combination switching does a DMS 100 employs? TSSS Tsst C. TSSSST D. TSTS 34, With this type of switching technique, onc established, a dedicated path lexists between both ends until the connection is terminated, whieh type of switching technique has this feature? ‘A, Packet Switching B, Data Switching 2. Message Switching Circuit Switching 35, .....« Switching is not compatible with interactive applications. A. Circuit B. Data ®D Message D. Packet, the node does not need to make a routing decision for each packet circuit switching ait switching 37. Teletraffic models are A. Deterministic B, Constant 2) Stochastic D. Variable 38. An exchange serves 4,000 subscribers. If the busy hour call attempt (BHCA) is 20,000 the call completion rate is 60% , calculate the busy hour ealling rate. 1 o@e> 6 < 39. During the busy hour, 1200 calls arrive at an exchange. The average holding time is tw minutes. What is the offered traffic in CCS? = & 720 yBe bad C. 2,880 D. 20 40. The media gateway interfaces the ‘A, FDM and TDM networks ) FDM and IP networks C. TDM and [P networks \/ D. WDM and TDM networks Ls ae of the following is NOT a service that can be offered by a oteper houtr on the avera,17. Consider a TSI with the following mapping: TS1 ~ T$3,T52 ~ TS4, 783 > TS5,TS4 > TS1,TS5 > TS2? What will be the output if EDCBA is applied at the input of the TSI? A. ABCDE B. ACBDE <© CBAED D. BEACD 48. In an Elframe, time slot 16 is used for A, Frame ali: ®B) Synehron io naling nment ation D. Error Corrections 9 and 50, A simple junction network Use the following information to answer questions 4 e(T). 4 D) and it may also have a tan originates 2.0 erlangs of traffic to eack n exch has four local exchanges (A, B, C at During the busy ho! others and the required gra of the each local exchat of service is 0.05 9, Determine the total number of one-way junctions required in the network if direet june only are provided (Le, no tandem exchange) A. 36 B. 6 C.-60 D. 72 50. Determine the total numb-: 0 one-way junctions required n the network if all junetions calls: are routed throug A. 96 B. 80 Co 48 Dias: ange.