5105: BHARATHIDASAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE

NATTARMPALLI 635 854.

NAME OF THE STAFF

R.ANBARASAN

DESIGNATION & DEPARTMENT

: AP/CSE

SUBJECT CODE

CS 6551

SUBJECT NAME

COMPUTER NETWORKS

UNIT I
FUNDAMENTALS AND LINK LAYER
PART A
1. What are the three criteria necessary for an effective and efficient network?
2. Group the OSI layers by function. - APR / MAY 2011
3. What are the features provided by layering? - APR / MAY 2011
4. What are the two interfaces provided by protocols?
5. What is LAN?
6. Distinguish between error control and flow Control. APR / MAY 2015
7. Define Error detection and correction. NOV/DEC 2014
8. What is the use of two dimensional parity in error detection? - NOV/DEC 2012
9. What are the issues in data link layer?
10. What are the ways to address the framing problem?
11. What are the responsibilities of data link layer? - NOV/DEC 2012
12. Mention the types of errors.
13. Define the following terms: IP, TCP and UDP. [ May / June 12 ]
14. What is redundancy? APR / MAY 2014
15. What is the purpose of hamming code? NOV/DEC 2014
16. What is OSI? Dec. 15
17. Define bit stuffing. - APR / MAY 2011
18. Define Layer. NOV/DEC 2013
19. What do you mean by framing. NOV/DEC 2013
20. State the issues of data link layer. NOV/DEC 2015
21. What is refraction? April / May 15
22. List the difference between circuit switching and packet networking.

PART B
1. Draw the OSI network architecture and explain the functionalities of every layer in detail. Nov./
Dec.11,15
2. Discuss various topologies of the network with suitable diagrams. Nov./ Dec.15
3. Explain the categories of networks.
4. What is the need for error detection? Explain with typical examples .Explain methods used for
error detection and error correction. APR / MAY 2015 Nov./Dec.12
5. Explain error control mechanism.
6. Explain the various flow control mechanism. Nov./ Dec.15
7. Discuss in detail about internet architecture. APR / MAY 2015
8. Explain the following: (i) PPP (ii) HDLC (iii) SONET. April / May 11
9. Enumerate the Go back N ARQ with a neat sketch. APR / MAY 2016
10. Illustrate the sliding window mechanism with an example. Nov./ Dec.16
11. Explain in detail about the stop-and-wait ARQ in the following cases:
(i) Damaged frames (ii) Lost data frames and (iii) Lost ACK.
12. Discuss in detail about the network performance.

UNIT II
MEDIA ACCESS AND INTERNETWORKING

PART A
1. What are the responsibilities of Network Layer?
2. What is DHCP?
3. Define ICMP?
4. What is the need of internetwork?
5. What are the types of class full addressing?
6. What do you mean by ARP?
7. How does a router differ from a bridge? APR / MAY 2013
8. What are the functions of MAC?
9. Define the term medium access control mechanism
10. What is bridge? Nov. / Dec. 11
11. What is a repeater?
12. Define router and source routing. Nov. / Dec. 13
13. What is a switch? Nov. / Dec. 12
14. What is mean by Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet? Nov. / Dec. 14
15. How do you define CSMA / CD? Nov. / Dec. 11
16. What is meant by exponential back off? Nov. / Dec 16
17. What is scatternet? Nov. / Dec. 16
18. List the main limitation of bridges.
19. What do you understand by CSMA protocol? April / May 15
20. List the functions of bridges. April / May 15

PART B
1. Explain in detail about the access method and frame format used in Ethernet and token ring.
April / May 15
2. Explain in detail about IEEE 802.3 with suitable diagram.
3. Explain detail about Bluetooth
4. Explain about IPv4 address
5. Explain about Address resolution protocol
6. Explain about RARP
7. Explain about Internet Control Message Protocol.
8. (i) Discuss the MAC layer functions of IEEE 802.11 April / May 15
(ii) Briefly define key requirements of wireless LAN. April / May 15
9. (i) An IEEE 802.5 token ring has 5 stations and a total wire length of 230m. How many bits of
delay must the monitor insert into the ring? Calculate this for both 4 Mbps and 16 Mbps rings.
The propagation speed may be assumed to be 2.3 x 108 m/s.
(ii) Discuss the problems encountered in applying CSMA / CD algorithm to wireless LANs.
How does 802.11 specification solve these problems? May / June 12, 13
10. Explain the physical properties of Ethernet 802.3 with necessary diagram of Ethernet
transceiver and adapter. Nov. / Dec. 16
11. With a neat sketch explain about IP service model, packet format, Fragmentation and
reassembly. Nov. / Dec. 16

UNIT III
ROUTING

PART A
1. What is routing?
2. What is the purpose of address resolution protocol (ARP)? Nov / Dec13
3. Define an internetwork
4. State the duties of network layer
5. What is multicasting? Nov / Dec11
6. What are different types of multicast routing?
7. Define subnetting. Nov / Dec11, 13
8. Mention any four applications of multicasting.
9. Describe the process of routing packets.
10. What are the some routing algorithm types?
11. What is a benefit of DHCP? Nov / Dec12
12. What are the services offered by network layer?
13. What are data grams?
13. What is IP addressing?
14. How can the routing be classified?
15. What are the salient features of IPv6? Nov / Dec12
16. What is multicast? What is the motivation for developing multicast? April / May11
17. Define VCI. Nov / Dec16
18. What is fragmentation and reassembly? Nov / Dec16

PART B
1. Explain IP addressing method.

2. Explain the distance vector routing and link state routing algorithm. Mention the
limitations of the same. April / May 15
3. Define bridge and explain the type of bridges.
4. Explain subnetting.
5. Write short notes about repeaters, routers and gateways. Repeaters
6. Explain detail about Global internet.
7. Explain multicast routing.
8. Explain the shortest path algorithm with suitable illustrations. April / May 15, Nov/
Dec.16
9. Discuss in detail about any two multicast routing with neat sketches. Nov/ Dec.16

UNIT IV
TRANSPORT LAYER

PART A
1. What are the fields on which the UDP checksum is calculated? Why?
2. What are the advantages of using UDP over TCP?
2. What is TCP?
3. Define congestion. April / May 14
4. List the flag used in TCP header?
5. Give the approaches to improve the QOS..
6. What do you mean by QOS?
7. What is multiplexing?
8. What is the demultiplexing?
9. What is RTT?
10. What is the segment?
11. What is a port?
12. List the services of end to end services.
13. What is congestion? Nov. / Dec 15
14. What are the functions of transport layer?
15. What are the types of QOS tools?
16. List some ways to deal with congestion
17. Define a network congestion? Nov. / Dec 15
18. Explain the three types of addresses in TCP/IP?
19. What are the flow characteristics related to QOS?
20. What are the techniques to improve QOS?
21. Define Socket address
22. What are the two types of protocols used in Transport layer?
23. Define Throughput. April / May 14
24. Define UDP. Nov. / Dec 16
25. What is the need of port numbers?
26. What are the types of port numbers used in transport layer?
27. Why TCP services are called Stream delivery services?
28. Define jitter.
29. Compare connectionless service & connection oriented service. Nov. / Dec 16
30. What is Unicast & Multicast communication?

PART B
1. Explain the various fields of the TCP header and the working of the TCP protocol. April / May
15, Nov. / Dec 16
2. Explain the three way handshake protocol to establish the transport level connection. April /
May 15
3. List the various congestion control mechanisms. Explain any one in detail. April / May 15
4. How is congestion controlled? Explain in detail about congestion control techniques in
transport layer. Nov. / Dec 16
5. Write detailed note on : (i) RPC (ii) RTP Nov. / Dec 16
6. Explain in detail about the simple demultiplexing and reliable byte streams. April / May 11
7. Describe how reliable and ordered delivery is achieved through the TCP. Nov. / Dec 13
8. Why does TCP uses and adaptive retransmission and describe its mechanism. Nov. / Dec 13
9. Illustrate and explain UDP and its packet format. Nov. / Dec 11
10. Explain in detail about TCP congestion avoidance algorithm. Nov. / Dec 11
11. Give and explain the TCP header format. Nov. / Dec 12
12. With the help of neat network diagram, Explain how TCP messages a byte stream. Give an
example. Nov. / Dec 12

UNIT V
APPLICATION LAYER

PART A
1. What is DNS?
2. Define SMTP? Nov. / Dec. 12
3. What is mean by Telnet?
4. State the purpose of SNMP. Nov. / Dec. 11
5. Why email security is necessary?
6. What is domain name system responsible for?
7. What is a virtual terminal?
8. What are the basic functions of e-mail?
9. Define WWW.
10. What is web browser?
11. What is URL?
12. What is POP?
13. What are the transmission modes of FTP?
14. Mention the application of FTP.
15. Differentiate application program and application protocol. Nov. / Dec. 13
16. Distinguish between SMTP and MIME.
17. Compare HTTP and FTP.
18. What are the advantages of DNS?
19. What are the four services required for secured communication?
20. What is the purpose of firewall?
21. What is meant by cryptography?
22. What is the basic model FTP?
23. Give the format of HTTP request. Nov. / Dec. 16
24. List the functions of POP3. Nov. / Dec. 16
25. What is the role of VCI? April / May 16

PART B
1. Explain about e mail system with neat sketch. April / May 11, Nov. / Dec. 11,13,14
2. With neat diagram, discuss about SNMP. Nov. / Dec. 16
3. Explain in detail about MIME with suitable diagram.
4. Give the comparisons between POP3 and IMAP4. Nov. / Dec. 16
5. Discuss in detail about the HTTP and RTP with neat sketches.
6. Briefly discuss about TCP connections in HTTP.
7. Give a detailed notes on domain name system (DNS) with a neat diagram. Nov. / Dec. 11,16.
Explain in detail about the DNS hierarchical tree structure with neat sketch.
9. Explain in detail about the Web services with neat diagrams.
10. Discuss in detail about the SOAP architecture with neat sketch.
11. Compare and contrast REST / HTTP vs. WSDL / SOAP.
12. Explain the final delivery of email to the end user using POP3. April / May 15
13. Explain the message transfer using SMTP. April / May 15, Nov. / Dec. 11
14. Write a detailed note on web services. April / May 15
15. Discuss about WWW ( HTTP) in detail. April / May 11, Nov. / Dec. 12