REVA UNIVERSITY

School of Computer Science and Engineering

QUESTION BANK

Academic year : Odd Sem 2020 - 21

Sub name : Computer Networks Sub-code : B18CS5030

UNIT-1
Q. Blooms Course
Questions
No. Taxonomy Outcomes
level Mapped
1 If a periodic signal is decomposed into five sine waves with frequencies of L2
100, 300, 500, 700, and 900 Hz, what is its bandwidth? Draw the spectrum, CO1
assuming all components have maximum amplitude of 10 V.
2 The power we use at home has a frequency of 60 Hz (50 Hz in Europe). Find L3 CO1
the period.
3 The wavelength is normally measured in micrometers (microns). For L3 CO1
example, the wavelength of the frequency of red light is 4 × 10 14. Find the
wavelength of red light in air.
4 Consider a noiseless channel with a bandwidth of 3000 Hz transmitting a L1 CO1
signal with two signal levels. Find the maximum bit rate. Consider the same
noiseless channel transmitting a signal with four signal levels (for each level,
we send 2 bits). Find the maximum bit rate in this case.
5 Consider an extremely noisy channel in which the value of the signal-to-noise L2 CO1
ratio is almost zero. In other words, the noise is so strong that the signal is
faint. For this channel the find capacity of the channel.
6 We can calculate the theoretical highest bit rate of a regular telephone line. A L2 CO1
telephone line normally has a bandwidth of 3000. The signal-to-noise ratio is
usually 3162. Find the capacity of this channel.
7 A network with bandwidth of 10 Mbps can pass only an average of 12,000 L2 CO1
frames per minute with each frame carrying an average of 10,000 bits. What
is the throughput of this network?
8 The distance between the two points is 12,000 km. Assume the propagation L2 CO1
speed to be 2.4 × 108 m/s in cable. Find the propagation time.
9 Calculate the propagation time and the transmission time for a 5-Mbyte L2 CO1
message (an image) if the bandwidth of the network is 1 Mbps? Assume that
the distance between the sender and the receiver is 12,000 km and that light
travels at 2.4 × 108 m/s.
10 An analog signal carries 4 bits per signal element. If 1000 signal elements are L2 CO1
sent per second, find the bit rate.
11 Identify the five components of a data communications system. Discuss each L2 CO1
component.
12 Outline the three criteria necessary for effective and efficient network. L2 CO1
13 A network topology is the arrangement of nodes -- usually switches, routers, L2 CO1
 or software switch/router features -- and connections in a network, often
represented as a graph. Explain different types of network topology. Outline
its advantages and disadvantages.
14 Suppose there are n devices in a network. What is the number of cable L1 CO1
links required for a mesh, ring, bus, and star topology?
15 You have two computers connected by an Ethernet hub at home. Is this a L1 CO1
LAN, a MAN, or a WAN? Explain your reason.
16 When a party makes a local telephone call to another party, is this a point-to- L1 CO1
point or multipoint connection? Explain your answer.
17 Four levels of addresses are used in an internet employing the TCP/IP L2 CO1
protocols. Explain each type of addressing.
18 How are OSI and ISO related to each other? Discuss with neat sketch the L5 CO1
function of each layers in OSI.
19 Suppose a computer sends a packet at the network layer to another L2 CO1
computer somewhere in the Internet. The logical destination address of the
packet is corrupted. What happens to the packet? How can the source
computer be informed of the situation?
20 Assume we need to download text documents at the rate of 100 pages per L2 CO1
minute. What is the required bit rate of the channel? A digitized voice
channel is made by digitizing a 4-kHz bandwidth analog voice signal. We need
to sample the signal at twice the highest frequency (two samples per hertz).
We assume that each sample requires 8 bits. What is the required bit rate?
21 The power of a signal is 10 mW and the power of the noise is 1 /lW; what are
the values of SNR and SNRdB?
22 We have a channel with a I-MHz bandwidth. The SNR for this channel is 63.
What are the appropriate bit rate and signal level?
23 If the bandwidth of the channel is 5 Kbps, how long does it take to send a
frame of 100,000 bits out of this device?
24 Outline the key differences between TCP/IP and OSI reference model.
25 What is the number of bits per baud for the following techniques?
a. ASK with four different amplitudes
b. FSK with 8 different frequencies
c. PSK with four different phases
26 Discuss the various techniques for digital to analog conversion.
27 Discuss the various techniques for analog to analog conversion.
28 Discuss the various techniques for analog to digital conversion.
29 Outline the various developments that took place between 1960’s to 1995 in
the evolution of the Internet.
30 Discuss guided and un-guided media in detail.
31 List and explain some application layer protocol (any two).
32 Compare and contrast PCM and DM.
33 Define the following (a) Periodic and non-Periodic signal (b) Phase (c)
Frequency (d) Bandwidth (e) Bit rate (f) Baud rate (g) Throughput (h) Latency
(delay) (i) Jitter (j) Noise (k) Attenuation (l) Distortion (m) Bit length (n) Analog
 signal (o) Digital Signal
34 Discuss the different transmission modes.
35 Explain the mode of communication.

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