NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ROURKELA

END SEMESTER EXAMINATION, 2015

SESSION: 2015-16, AUTUMN SEMESTER
PROGRAMME: PG
Dept. Code: EC, Course Code: EC-761, Course Name: Optical Communication and Networks
Full Marks: 50 Duration of Examination: 3 hours

This question paper contains two pages

Figures at the right hand margin indicate marks

All parts of a question should be answered at one place. Answer all the questions.
Q. No Marks
1. Discuss the propagation modes in single-mode fiber. Explain mode theory for optical 2
fibers in detail.
2. Discuss various kinds of losses that an optical signal might suffer while propagating 3
through fiber. Which is the most important one? What is the effect of these losses on
light power and pulse shape?
3. Derive the expression for wave guide and material dispersion. 3
4. Discuss the fundamentals of optical communication operations with neat block 3
diagram.
5. Explain the basic frame structure and network architecture of WDM/DWDM 3
network systems.
6. Draw an internetworking connection with the following specification. Show all the 3
hosts, their addresses and connections. The IP address selection is up to you.
a) One token ring network with four hosts (class A)
b) One Ethernet with four hosts (class C)
c) The Token ring connected to the Ethernet by a gateway
7. Find the shortest-path for node 1 to node 7 of the following network topology using 6
Bellman-Ford and Dijkstra algorithm. All the links indicates with length.

1
8. Explain the following. 5
a) OBGP path finding attributes.
b) OBGP path finding algorithm.
c) How OBGP is differ from MPLS and GMPLS techniques?
d) Find the path for a source-destination pair (A, F) of the following network
topology. Take your own attribute values.

AS2
B UP1
AS1 UP4

A
UP5 E
C F

UP3
UP2

AS3
D

9. Explain about passive optical couplers. In a 2 x 2 biconical tapered fiber coupler, 4

compute the splitting ratio, excess loss, insertion loss and return loss. Take the values
of P0, P1, P2, P3 as 200μW, 90μW, 85μW and 6.3μW respectively.
10. Explain about various routing mechanisms in optical networking. 3
11. What are the wavelength assignment constraints in WDM/DWDM Network? 3
Explain at least three of the wavelength assignment (WA) algorithms with example.
12. What do you mean by physical layer impairments? Explain about a) linear crosstalk 3
and b) Four-wave mixing.
13. What do you mean by bit-error probability (BER) in WDM network? Derive its 5
expression by taking a WDM network receiver model.
14. How do you compute the quality of an optical network connection? Explain it with 4
your own innovative idea.