Computer Networks Question bank 2021-22

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MODULE 1
1 Explain the significance of layers in TCP/IP protocol suite 8M June/July 2018
with neat diagram. Jan/Feb 2021
With a neat diagram, explain the responsibilities of each layer 6M June/July 2019
in TCP/IP protocol suite CO1 L2
Mention the layers of TCP/IP protocol suite and explain 10 M Dec2019/Jan20
briefly about layers and protocols in each layer. 20
Outline the functions of various layers in TCP/IP with 8M Aug/Sep 2020
necessary diagram to show logical connection between the
layers
2 What are the five components involved in Data 5M CO1 L2 Dec2018/Jan20
Communication? Explain with suitable diagram. 19
3 Explain briefly four physical topologies of a network 4M CO1 L2 June/July 2018
Compare various physical topologies in Computer network. 6M Aug/Sep
2020
4 Explain the following briefly; 8M CO1 L2 Jan/Feb 2021
i. Data flow
ii. Star topology
iii. LAN
iv. WAN
5 With a neat diagram explain encapsulation and decapsulation 4M CO1 L2 June/July 2019
in protocol layering.
Show the encapsulation and decapsulation representation in 6M Dec2018/Jan20
the TCP/IP model and explain. 19

MODULE 2
1 Explain ARP operation and ARP packet format with a neat 8M CO2 L2 June/July 2018
diagram.
Discuss the ARP operation and show how the ARP send the 8M June/July 2019
request and reply message with an example.
2 Describe the operation of Stop & Wait protocol also the FSM 8M CO2 L2 June/July 2018
of Stop & Wait protocol.
Explain stop & wait protocol with FSM diagram. 5M Jan/Feb 2021
Explain stop & wait protocol and show how adding sequence 8M
numbers can prevent duplicates with the help of flow June/July 2019
Dec2018/Jan201
diagrams. 9
Demonstrate stop & wait protocol by considering 6M
acknowledgement, timer and sequence no, with the help of
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flow diagram. Dec 2019/Jan

10 M 2020
Aug/Sep2020
3 Illustrate with an example byte stuffing and bit stuffing. 4M CO2 L2 / June/July 2018
Explain character-oriented framing and bit-oriented framing. 5M L3 Jan/Feb 2021
Define framing, explain role of bit stuffing in framing. 4M Dec2018/Jan201
9
Define bit stuffing. Perform bit stuffing for the given data 6M Dec 2019/Jan
0001111111001111101000 assume the flag as 01111110. 2020
Define byte stuffing. Perform byte stuffing for frame payload 8M Dec 2019/Jan
in which E is the Escape byte, F is the Flag byte and D is the 2020
data byte.
D E D D E D D E F D F D

4 With a neat diagram explain link layer addressing in detail. 6M CO2 L2 Jan/Feb 2021
5M Dec2018/Jan201
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5 With a neat diagram explain Standard Ethernet frame format 8M CO2 L2 Jan/Feb 2021
and addressing.
With a neat diagram explain Ethernet frame format. 6M June/July 2018
Explain the format of Standard Ethernet frame. What are the 7M June/July 2019
minimum and maximum frame lengths? Dec2018/Jan201
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Dec 2019/Jan
2020

6 Differentiate Pure ALOHA and Slotted ALOHA protocols 4M CO2 L2 Jan/Feb 2021

7 A slotted ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames using a 4M CO2 L3 Jan/Feb 2021
shared channel with a 200-kbps bandwidth. Find the throughput Dec 2019/Jan
if the system (all stations together) produces 2020
1. 1000 frames/sec
2. 500 frames/sec
3. 250 frames/sec
8 With a neat flow diagram, explain CSMA/CD random access 8M CO2 L2 Jan/Feb 2021
protocol along with different persistent methods.
Describe persistent methods in CSMA with flow diagrams. 6M June/July 2018
Explain 1-persistent, non-persistent an p-persistent methods of 6M Dec 2019/Jan
CSMA. 2020
9 In the Standard Ethernet with the transmission rate of 10Mbps, 3M CO2 L3 Jan/Feb 2021
the length of the medium is 2500m and the size of the frame is Dec2018/Jan201
512 bits. The propagation speed of the signal in the cable is 9
2x108 m/s. Calculate propagation delay, transmission delay and Dec 2019/Jan
efficiency. 2020
Aug/Sep2020
10 Explain the three strategies used in CSMA/CA collision 6M CO2 L2 June/July 2018
avoidance. Aug/Sep2020
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11 A pure ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames using a 4M CO2 L3 June/July 2018
shared channel with a 200-kbps bandwidth. Find the throughput
if the system (all stations together) produces June/July 2019
1. 1000 frames/sec
Aug/Sep2020
2. 500 frames/sec
3. 250 frames/sec
12 Explain hidden station problem in wireless networks. 5M CO2 L2 June/July 2018
6M June/July 2019

13 Explain the behavior of CSMA protocol with a neat diagram 8M CO2 L2 June/July 2019
and show the vulnerable time in CSMA.
14 Identify if the Ethernet MAC addresses are unicast, multicast or 3M CO2 L3 June/July 2019
broadcast. 6M Dec2018/Jan201
i. 47:20:1B:2E:08:EE 9
ii. EE: FF: 10:01:11:00
iii. FF: FF: FF: FF: FF: FF
15 An ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames using a shared 6M CO2 L3 Dec2018/Jan201
channel with 200 kbps bandwidth. Find the throughput of pure 9
and slotted ALOHA if the system produces 500 frames per
second.
16 A network using CSMA/C D has a bandwidth of 10 Mbps. If 5M CO2 L3 Dec2018/Jan201
the maximum propagation time is 25.6µs. What is the minimum 9
size of the frame? Aug/Sep2020
17 What are the characteristics of wireless networks 5M CO2 L2 Dec 2019/Jan
2020
18 Explain the various services of datalink layer 8M CO2 L2 Aug/Sep2020

MODULE 3
1 Explain the two types of packets switched networks 7M CO3 L2 Jan/Feb 2021

2 Explain classful addressing in detail. 5M CO3 L2 Jan/Feb 2021

3 An organization is granted a block of addresses with the 7M CO3 L3 Jan/Feb 2021

beginning address 14.24.74.0/24. The organization needs to Dec2018/Jan20
have 3 subblocks of addresses to use in its three subnets: one 19
subblock of 10 addresses, one subblock of 60 addresses, and Aug/Sep2020
one subblock of 120 addresses. Design the subblocks.
4 Explain IPv4 datagram format and header fields with 8M CO3 L2 Jan/Feb 2021
diagrams. June/July2018
June/July2019
Dec2018/Jan20
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Dec2019/Jan20
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Aug/Sep2020
5 Explain distance vector routing along with distance vector 8M CO3 L3 Jan/Feb 2021
routing algorithm for a node. June/July2018
Explain with an example distance vector routing algorithm.
With relevant diagrams describe Distance vector routing. What June/July2019
is the two-node instability in DVR? Dec2018/Jan20
Explain distance-vector-routing using Bellman-Ford algorithm 19
providing a suitable illustration.
What is distance vector routing? Explain the various
Aug/Sep2020
drawbacks of distance vector routing and a few solutions to
overcome the same.
6 What is path vector routing and explain the same? 6M CO3 L2 Jan/Feb 2021

7 In the Ipv4 packet, the value of HLEN is 5, and the value of 2M CO3 L3 Jan/Feb 2021
total length field is 0X0028. How many bytes of data are being
carried by this packet?
8 Explain Datagram approach in connectionless service to route 5 M CO3 L2 June/July2018
the packet.
9 Explain a simple implementation of Network Address 5M CO3 L2 June/July2018
Translation (NAT) and address translation with a neat June/July2019
diagram.
What is NAT? Explain hoe NAT helps in Address depletion. Dec2018/Jan20
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10 Explain with an example link state routing and also apply 8M CO3 L3 June/July2018
Dijkstra’s algorithm to find least cost path tree. Aug/Sep2020
Illustrate with an example, Link state routing.
11 Explain the occupation of address space in classful addressing. 4M CO3 L2 June/July2019
12 A block of address of addresses is granted to a small 6M CO3 L3 June/July2019
organization. We know that one of the addresses is
167.199.170.82/27. What is the first address and total number
of addresses of the block?
13 Differentiate between datagram network and virtual circuit 4M CO3 L2 Dec2018/Jan20
network. 19
14 Find the shortest path from source A to destination G from the 6 M CO3 L3 Dec2018/Jan20
given graph from the figure using the Dijkstra’s algorithm. 19

15 Explain least cost trees using shared link state database with 10M CO3 L3 Dec2019/Jan20
suitable example. 20
16 Explain in brief DHCP. 4M CO3 L2 Aug/Sep2020
17 Explain the following: 4M CO3 L2 Aug/Sep2020
i. QoS
ii. Congestion Control
18 Explain with a neat diagram virtual circuit packet switched 6M CO3 L2 Aug/Sep2020
network.

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MODULE 4
1 With a neat diagram, explain connection establishment, data 10 M CO4 L2 Dec2019/Jan20
transfer and connection termination in Transmission Control 20
Protocol (TCP).
2 The following is the content of a UDP header in hexadecimal 6M CO4 L3 Dec2019/Jan20
format. CB84000D001C001C 20
i. What is the source port number?
ii. What is the destination port number?
iii. What is the total length of the user datagram?
iv. What is the length of the data?
v. Is the packet directed from a client to a server or vice
versa?
What is the client process?
3 Explain connectionless and connection- oriented protocols in 8M CO4 L2 Jan/Feb2021
transport layer.
Explain connectionless and connection-oriented service June/July2019
showing the movement of packets using the time line. Dec2018/Jan20
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Aug/Sep2020

4 Explain Go-Back-N protocol along with sliding window 8M CO4 L2 Aug/Sep2020

diagrams.
5 Explain TCP segment format along different fields. 8M CO4 L2 Aug/Sep2020

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Aug/Sep2020

6 With a neat diagram, explain state transition diagram of TCP. 8M CO4 L2 Aug/Sep2020
7 Explain why the send window size of Go-back N must be less 5M CO4 L3 June/July2018
than 2𝑚 .
June/July2019
8 Explain sending and receiving buffers in TCP 5M CO4 L3 June/July2018
9 Explain why the size for send and receive window in selective 5 M CO4 L3 June/July2018
repeat can be almost one half of 2𝑚
10 Discuss the general services provided by UDP. 5M CO4 L3 June/July2018
11 Explain with a neat diagram connection establishment using 6M CO4 L3 June/July2018
three-way handshaking in TCP. June/July2019
Explain with a neat diagram connection establishment and 10 M Dec2018/Jan20
connection termination using three-way handshaking in TCP. 19
12 Describe slow start algorithm for handling congestion in TCP. 6M CO4 L2 June/July2019
13 Demonstrate Go-Back-N protocol with a forward channel is 6M CO4 L2 Dec2018/Jan20
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reliable but in the reverse channel, if an acknowledgement is 19

delayed or lost.
14 Explain the different fields in user datagram packet format 6M CO4 L2 Dec2019/Jan20
with a neat diagram 20
15 Explain with a neat diagram Go-Back-N protocol. 8M CO4 L2 Aug/Sep2020
16 Explain the various services of UDP. 5M CO4 L2 Aug/Sep2020
17 Suppose a TCP connection is transferring a file of 5000 bytes. 3 M CO4 L2 Aug/Sep2020
The first byte is numbered 10001. What are the sequence
numbers for each segment if data are sent in five segments,
each carrying 1000 bytes?

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