IIITS/S-2020/Mid Sem Exams Date: Feb 2020

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, Chittoor

Name of the Exam: Computer Communication Networks Duration: 90 Mins Max. Marks: 40
Roll No.:____________________________________Room No.: _______________Seat No.: __________
Name: _____________________________________Invigilator’s Signature: _______________________
Instructions: 1. Closed book exam, no note books, no formula sheets, no electronic gadgets.
2. Calculator is allowed, exchange is not permitted during the exam.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marks Table:
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Total
Max. marks 10 10 4 4 4 8 40
Marks
Obtained

1. (a) Distinguish between packet switched and circuit switched networks. (5 Marks)

1(b)With a neat sketch, explain the function of OSI network architecture. (5 Marks)

Page 1 of 5
IIITS/S-2020/Mid Sem Exams Date: Feb 2020

2. (a) Explain what is TDM? What are its advantages? (4 Marks)

2(b) There are 3 IPL matches are happening in different locations, assuming they are happening
simultaneously, the service provider wants to send the score for each ball (data) as bit steams using
synchronous TDM. As it is known that the number of inputs are same as number of time slots (each time
slot can accommodate 3 bits at a time), hence the frame length is 9 bits. If the scores after the first over
are given below, fill the table given below for 6 frames (6 balls). (6 Marks)

Input 1 →
W 1 3 2 4 0
Ball 6 Ball 1

Input 2 → Output 6 frames

1 W 0 6 1 2
Ball 6 Ball 1

Input 3 →
0 2 1 0 W 6
Ball 6 Ball 1

Representation of score in bits:

Page 2 of 5
IIITS/S-2020/Mid Sem Exams Date: Feb 2020
Score Bit representation
0 000
1 001
2 010
3 011
4 100
6 110
W 111

MSB LSB
Frame 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Frame 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0
Frame 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0
Frame 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
Frame 5 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
Frame 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Table: Frames data.

………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

3. In a fiber optic cable, the critical angle at the core–cladding interface is 30ᵒ, if the refractive index of
the cladding is closed to vacuum (1), determine the refractive index of the core and also what is the
maximum angle θ that the rays leaving the source of light should make with the axis of the fiber so that
total internal reflections takes place at the core cladding interface. Determine the speed of light in core.
(4 Marks)
1.5X108 m/s
2
60

4. What is Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) explain its operation by considering at least 3
channels, What are its advantages?
(4 marks)

Page 3 of 5
IIITS/S-2020/Mid Sem Exams Date: Feb 2020

5. Consider a single router is transmitting packets, each of length L bits, over a single link with transmission
rate R Mbps to another router at the other end of the link. Suppose that the packet length is L= 8000 bits,
and that the link transmission rate along the link to router on the right is R= 1 Mbps. (a) What is the
transmission delay (the time needed to transmit all of a packet's bits into the link)? (b) what is the
maximum number of packets per second that can be transmitted by the link? (4 marks)

8ms or .008 sec

125msg/sec

6. (a) Explain in detail how electronic mail application is carried out in a network? Also explain the
protocols involved. (6 Marks)

Electronic mail is the most famous network service is supported by the TCP/IP protocol using
SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) at application layer.
It can send a text message
It can send a message to users outside the Internet
It can send a message include text, video, graphics, voice
Mail gateway:
The mail gateway is the relaying system allows sites do not use the TCP/IP protocol suite to send
e-mail to users on other sites that may or may not use TCP/IP protocol suite. This is
accomplished through the use of a mail gateway, which is a relay MTA that can receive mail
prepared by a protocol other than SMTP and transform it to SMTP format before sending it. It
can also receive mail in SMTP format and change it to another format before sending it.
Mail send/Receive:
Sending Mail – At sending a mail, user must give the details on receiver’s email address, subject,
and message body. To addresses and subjects on the message are coming under
header part of the mail and user’s messages are the body of the mail. At receiver side, they can
view the body of the message.
Receiving Mail – The email system periodically checks the mailbox summary, that contains
Page 4 of 5
IIITS/S-2020/Mid Sem Exams Date: Feb 2020
sender mail address, time of receive and the body of the message (what the sender wants to
convey).
Mail Address: SMTP addressing scheme consists of two parts:
Local part
Domain name part
Local Part addresses the mail box on the local site. Domain name addresses the name of the
destination.
Local part @ Domain Name
Local part: The local part defines the mail box, where all mails received for a user is stored for
retrieval by the user agent.
Domain name: Mail exchangers or an Organization comes at this second part. The domain name
assigned to each mail exchanger either comes from the DNS database or is a logical name.
SMTP Client / Server System both have two components,
1. User Agent (UA)
2. Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)
User Agent collects the Envelope, header, body of the message from users and sends it to Mail
Transfer Agent. The Mail Transfer Agent has the total response to transfer the message across
Internet. Both the sender and receiver have individual UA and MTA.Instead of just one MTA at
the sender site and one at the receiving site, other MTAs, acting either as client or server, can
relay the mail.

6. (b) List the various http request operations. (2 Marks)

Rough work

Page 5 of 5