DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SRINAGAR

Tutorial sheet 3 - Lecture Module 4 and 5

Course: Computer Networks Course code: ITT350

Branch: Information Technology Semester: 6th

Q1) In a data link protocol, frame delimiter flag is 01111. Assuming bit stuffing has been
employed at the transmitter, extract the actual data at the receiver if the data transmitted is
0111001100111001110. (Ans: 0111011001110111)

Q2) Reason out the following: (Ans: Refer to lectures for complete reasons)
A. Packer headers in Virtual-Circuit switching do not contain the final destination address.
B. Circuit-switched networks do not require any form of addressing during the data transfer
phase while Virtual-Circuit switching requires some form of mapping.

Q3) PPP is used for data transfer between two nodes. Suppose you ignore the control,
protocol and FCS fields while creating frames, generate the PPP frame if the data to be
sent is 0111110101111110.
(Ans: As 01111101 represents ESC and 01111110 represents Flag after byte stuffing the
data will be ESC ESC ESC Flag and then ignoring the given fields the PPP frame looks like
Flag Address Data Flag where address is 11111111)

Q4) In a packet-switched network having 3 intermediate nodes between A and B, we need to

transfer 20 packets from A to B given each packet has size L bits, bandwidth is R Mbps and
speed of propagation is s m/sec. Assume the distance between any two points as D m. Find the
total time taken by 20 packets to reach from A to B. (ignore processing and queuing delay)?
(Ans: 4(L/R*10^6 + D/s) + 19* L/R*10^6 sec)

Q5) In a packet-switched network, packets are routed from source to destination along a single
path with 2 intermediate nodes. If the message size is 16 bytes and each packet contains a
header of 3 bytes, find the optimum size of the packet for the network. (Ans: 7 bytes)