Assignment No.

03 Total Marks: 15
Semester: Fall 2020
CS601: Data Communication Due Date: 3rd February 2021

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Objectives:

The objectives of this assignment is to enhance the capabilities of students about the following:

1. Addressing Scheme
2. Error detection and correction.
3. Hamming distance
Assignment

Question No. 1 [Marks: 5]

Hamming distance is an error detection technique which is used to correct number of bits in the data.
You are required to find out the missing column values of each row by proper calculation.

Number of bits to be corrected Minimum hamming distance

16
9
6
9
17

Question No. 2 [Marks: 5]

Suppose in a communication system of an organization, data rate of the signal is 2Kbps and it has the duration of
noise signal 1/100 seconds. Calculate the number of impacted/affected bits by showing all the required steps of
calculation.

Question No. 3 [Marks: 5]

A MAC address is of three types; unicast, multicast and broadcast. You are required to identify and write down
these types of the given MAC addresses below:

MAC Address Type

A3:43:85:11:93:F1
1C:87:B2:A1:2F:10
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
D3:5A:B2:9F:54:55
A4:1C:33:D2:0F:11

Best of Luck!