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Unit-I
1. Classify the communication network based on geographical coverage in
scale.Also compare and contrast them in brief
2. State the drawback of the fully connected Mesh Network. How many links and
I/O ports with each station required connecting 17 users with the mesh
architecture?
3. Explain various LAN topologies and list their merits and demerits
4. Describe Local area network and wide area network. Also compare them
5. Explain the function of transport layer, presentation layer and application layer
of OSI ref. model
6. Explain the function of following layers in OSI ref. model
I. Data link layer
II. Network layer
III. Presentation layer
7. Explain the following network topologies and list advantages and
disadvantages:
I. Mesh topology
II. Bus topology
8. List the factors that determine whether communication system is a LAN, MAN
or WAN
9. How does TCP achieve reliability, flow control and congestion? Explain in detail
10. Explain the importance of layering. Also discuss the problems with layering
11. Explain the concept of networking and mention any four application of it. Justify
the use of the networking in any one of these applications
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12. Which OSI layer is responsible for the following
I. Providing end-to-end communication with reliable service.
II. Determine the best path to route packets.
III. Providing node-to-node communication with reliable service
13. How does TCP achieve reliability, flow control and congestion? Explain in detail
14. Explain the concept of ISO-OSI ref. model for connecting open system and
discuss any network architecture based on this model
15. Explain OSI reference model layer with their assigned functions
16. Differentiate between message and packet switching
17. Explain the classes of network services with suitable example. Quote
advantage and disadvantages
18. State and explain various switching mechanism with the help of suitable
diagram
19. What do you understand by a communication network
20. Explain various LAN topologies. Enumerate advantages and disadvantages of
each topology
21. Name the OSI layer responsible for the following
I. Error detection in received packet
II. Packet sequencing and organizing the received data packets
III. Associating file with an application to run on
22. Compare LAN, MAN and WAN system with at least 5 different points
23. Explain the following network topologies and list the advantages and
disadvantages
I. Star topology
II. Hybrid topology
24. Explain the advantage of layered architecture. Also explain layer protocol
25. Explain circuit switching. List its advantages and disadvantage
26. Explain the need of computer networking in brief
27. What are the different Addressing schemes in TCP/IP protocol?
28. Enlistthe different network connecting devices.Stateit’s importance.
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29. Explain function of following network connecting devices
i) Hubs,
ii) Switches,
iii) Routers,
30. Explain function of following network connecting devices
i) Repeater,
ii) Bridges,
iii) Gateways
Unit-II
1. Why is the data link layer (DLL) divided into two sublayers in LAN networks?
State the names of these sublayers and their duties.
2. List out various methods of framing and explain any one method
3. Explain selective repeat ARQ procedure with the help of frame flow diagram for
normal operation
4. Justify” the window size is limited to 2k-1for K bit sequence number field for GO-
Back-N ARQ strategy”.
5. Explain point to point protocol
6. Explain stop and wait ARQ technique
7. Explain sliding window ARQ technique
8. Explain Go-Back-n sliding window ARQ error control
9. What is packet switching? Explain information flow control of a packet switching
network
10. Derive the expression for the efficiency of stop and wait ARQ protocol
11. Discuss point to point protocol frame format
12. What are the various responsibilities of data link layer? Describe in brief
13. What are the various types of sliding window protocols in ARQ? Explain in
detail
14. Compare Go-back-N and selective reject retransmission techniques. Draw
suitable diagrams
15. Explain bit stuffing process using flow chart
16. What is need of flow control in data link layer?
17. Explain selective repeat ARQ in detail
Unit-III
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Dept. of Electronics & Telecom. Engineering
1. What is vulnerable time? Determine in detail vulnerable time period for pure and
Slotted Aloha system. Also explain slotted Aloha scheme with the help of flow
chart?
2. What is collision? What is the Maximum time required to detect collision by the
station? Explain with frame flow.
3. Prove that, S = G e^-2G Where S = Throughput and G= offered load. Also
prove that for maximum throughput G = 0.5 in continuous Aloha system.
4. Classify in details CSMA techniques and then explain P persistent CSMA with
the help of flow chart
5. Derive the expression for throughput of pure and slotted aloha. What is the
difference between two techniques? Explain with the help of diagram?
6. What is access mechanism in token ring LAN? Draw & explain frame format of
data frame and token frame?
11. A network using TDM access control mechanism has transmission time of lms
and Propagation time of lms. Calculate the efficiency of the channel. If
bandwidth of the network is 4 mbps, determine the effective bandwidth. If each
packet needs to be sent with 2kbps bandwidth, compute the maximum number
of packets that can be sent without Collision.
12. A slotted ALOHA channel has an average l0% of the slots idle.
13. Explain IEEE 802.4 token bus and draw its frame format
14. What is difference between the Persistent CSMA and Non persistent CSMA?
Also describe the persistent CSMA and Non persistent CSMA, CSMA/CD with
the help of performance curve.
1) First IP address
2) The last IP address
3) The no.of IP address
1)227.12.14.87
2)193.14.56.22
3)00000001 00001011 00001011 11101111
4)10100111 11011011 10001011 01101111
Unit-V
1. Why UDP is needed? Why can’t user program directly access IP?
2. Explain User datagram format?
3. What kind of services provided by TCP and UDP? In which layer of TCP/IP
reference model they operate? Why TCP refers as reliable transmission
protocol?
4. Compare TCP and UDP
5. Draw and explain TCP header format in detail
6. Explain slow start algorithm used in TCP congestion control?
7. Explain congestion avoidance algorithm in TCP?
8. Explain different flow characteristics of Quality of Services?
9. Explain congestion detection in TCP
10. Explain different flow characteristics of Quality of Services?
11. What is congestion? Why congestion occurs in network and explains different
steps occurs in queuing in routers.
12. Explain network performance in congestion.
13. Explain as delay Vs load related to network performance in congestion
14. Explain throughput Vs load related to network performance in congestion
15. Why TCP refers as reliable transmission protocol?
16. Explain Port number at transport layer
17. Discuss connectionless Vs connection oriented services at transport layer
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Unit-VI
1. What is the role of application layer in networking? Explain in brief.
2. What is DNS? Explain with suitable example.
3. Explain how a DNS client/servant program can support an e-mail program to
find the IP address of an email recipient?
4. What are different domain name space and labels? Explain with suitable
example.
5. Compare partially qualified and fully qualified domain name.
6. How domain names are distributed in hierarchy?
7. How DNS used in internet? Enlist few generic domain labels.
8. What is the concept of inverse domain?
9. What are the different types of DNS messages? Explain in brief.
10. What are the different types of records in DNS? Explain in brief.
11. What is use of remote login? Explain TELNET service in brief.
12. What is an electronic mail? Explain architecture of electronic mail in brief.
13. What is use of Massage Transfer Agent (MTA’s)? Where does MTA’s are used,
explain with suitable example?
14. What are different services in User Agent in electronic mail?
15. What is File TransferProtocol (FTP)? Explain in brief.
16. Explain SMTP protocol in brief.
17. Explain architecture of WWW in brief.
18. What is URL? Explain with suitable example.
19. What is HTTP and it’s use? Explain with suitable example.
20. What are the functions of network management system?
21. What is SNMP concept? What are the components of network management in
the internet? Explain the role of SNMP
22. What is SNMP PDU format?