Roll No : THAPAR UNIV ERSITY, PATIALA Computer Scienc e and Engineering Deptt, MST (9th March '11) Course

No. : UCS-402 Course Name : Comp uter Networks Course Instructor Name: Dr. A K Verma, Karamjit Cheema Note: Attempt all que stions, and attempt them in sequence.

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Max. Marks: 25 Duration: 2 hrs

Section A (1 mark eac h)

1. Wh at is the differ en ce be tween uetw ork layer deli ver y and tran sp ort level del iver y ?
2. Wh at do Ny quis t sa mp ling rat e have to do with data co m munica tions? 3. Differenti ate between B it ra te and baud ra te. How are they rel a ted to each ot her. 4 . Which tran s mission m od e would be the best to transmit multi-med ia signa ls? Wh y ? 5. Na me auy two advan tages of usin g sprea d spectru m . 6. Whi ch is the most effic ie nt & p opular top ology used in network implement ation ?

Section B (2 marks each )

1. W ha t do you mean by Guard Band s ? 10 signals eac h requiring 4 Khz are multiplexed on to a sing le channe l using FD M. How m uch min imum bandwidth is requ ired for the multiplexed cha nnel ? Assume guard bands are 400 Hz wid e. 2. Represent (28) '0 usin g RZ and differential Manch ester co ding. Assuming last signal has been -ve. 3 . Differentiate betw een bas e ba nd and bro ad band tran smissi on . 4 . Briefly exp lai n various pe rfor ma nce metrics used for networks.

Section C
1. Given the follow ing C(23, 18) 1. Ge ne ra tor G(x) (3+3 =6 marks) Dat a Word

= 110110

= 101101100101101111

101101 101 10111100101010

What frame/co deword will be tran smitted ?

2. Fo llowing fra me/ co dewor d arr ived at reci ever Chec k if th ere is e rro r in it or not .
2. Discuss OSI m od el wi th the help of diagr am, describing func tions of ea ch layer. Co mpa re it with TCP/IP. (5 ma rks)

Good Luck !!

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