CS/B.

Tech(CSE)/SEM-6/CS-601/2010-11
2011
COMPUTER NETWORK
Time: 3 Hours Full Marks: 70

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group – A

1. Choose the most appropriate answer from the given alternatives in each of the following
questions: 10 x 1 = 10

A. The maximum throughput for pure ALOHA is

i) 1/(2e) ii) e iii) 1/e iv) (½)e
B. BNC-T connector used in _____________
i) Coaxial cable ii) Twisted pair cable
iii) Fiber-optical cable iv) None of the above
C. Horn Antenna is used to transmit _______ waves.
i) Micro ii) Radio iii) Infrared iv) None of these
D. The RG number gives us information about _______.
i) Coaxial Cable ii) Twisted Pair Cable
iii) Optical Fiber Cable iv) All of these
E. In a time division switch, a _________ governs the destination of a packet stored in RAM.
i) TDM bus ii) Cross point
iii) Crossbar iv) Control unit
F. Which error detection method involves the use of parity bits?
i) Simple parity check ii) 2 D parity check
iii) CRC iv) both i) & ii)
G. BSNL is an example of ______
i) IXC ii) ILEC iii) CLEC iv) i) & ii)
H. RJ connector used in _____________
i) Coaxial cable ii) Twisted pair cable
iii) Fiber-optical cable iv) None of the above
I. Which one is private IP address ?
i) 10.1.0.0 ii) 1.1.1.1 iii) 223.1.1.1 iv) 193.168.1.1
J. 802.10 is standard for
i) Logical link control ii) Token Bus
iii) Wireless LAN iv) Virtual LAN and security.

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Group – B
(Answer any three)

2. What is bit rate? How does it differ from baud rate? Suppose we want to digitize human voice
(0-4000Hz). Calculate the bit rate if we are using 8 bit to represent each sample? (1+1)+3
3. In a Stop and Wait ARQ the bandwidth of the line is 1 Mbps and 1 bit takes 20ms to make
a round trip. Find the bandwidth delay product. If frame size is 1000 bits what is the utilization
of the link. Mention the band-width of category 5 UTP. What is the size of MAC address? 1+2+1+1
4. A system uses 2 dimensional parity. Find the parity unit for the following data units assuming
even parity – 10011001 01101111 5
5. What do you mean by attenuation? What is Geo Stationary satellite? Write the full form VSAT. 2+2+1
6. Explain Shannon Capacity theorem for both noise-less and noisy channel? We have a channel with
1MHz bandwidth. The SNR for this channel is 63. What is the appropriate bit-rate? 2+3

Group – C
(Answer any three)

7. a) Analyze the performance of pure ALOHA.

b) How slotted ALOHA improved performance over pure ALOHA. In both the case find the
expression for average delay and throughput.
c) Compare the performance of pure ALOHA with slotted ALOHA. 5+(2+3)+5
8. a) Explain CRC code with an example.
b) Derive the poll scan time for Serial and Hub polling.
c) What is the difference between bit oriented and byte oriented protocol? 9+4+2
9. a) Compare the performance of 802.5 and 802.3 deriving the expression for throughput.
b) Explain flooding (routing).
c) What do you mean by unicast, multicast, broad cast ? What is choke packet? 8+3+(1+1+1+1)
10. a) Explain the leaky bucket algorithm for flow control.
b) What is the need of ARP? Describe the fields of an ARP packet.
c) Explain the process of TCP connection establishment.
d) What is jitter?
e) Describe the security services related to message 3+(1+3)+3+3+2
11. Write short notes on the following topics (any three): (3x5)
a) 802.11
b) DNS
c) CSMA/CD
d) DSL technology
e) ATM