NW311 (2+1 credit hours)

Data Communication and Networks (DCN)

Class id: 102320,21 Assignment # 03 Submission Deadline: Monday, 02-12-19

Instructions:
• All answers must be complete & precise in your own handwriting (Marks deduction for Untidy Work)
• Photocopy and Printouts are not accepted.
• Draw neat diagrams wherever required OR to support your answers.
• Assignment should be submitted on or before submission date, Late submissions are not allowed.
• You must solve the Assignment by your own, discussions are allowed it’s just about coping others work.
• Knowledge of Assignments would be checked in FINAL Exams.

Section -A (Short Answer Questions)

Q1. Find the name of the ISP and the block of addresses assigned to your home & Institute. Are they using
a classful address? If so, find out the class of the address.

Q2. What is the basis for membership in a VLAN? How does a VLAN;
- Saves company time and money?
- Provide extra security for a network
- Reduce network traffic?

Q3. What is a carrier signal? & what is the role of it in analog transmission?

Q4. A signal is sampled. Each sample represents one of the five levels. How many bits are needed to
represent each sample? If the sampling rate is 4000 samples per second, what is the bit rate?

Q5. You have been told to configure 192.168.13.175 on an interface with a mask of 255.255.255.240. Is there a
problem? If so, what is it?

Q6. How can we distinguish a multicast address in IPv4 addressing? How can we do so in IPv6 addressing?

Q7. Why is an ARP request broadcast? Why is an ARP reply unicast?

Q8. Compare and contrast the Go-Back-NARQ Protocol with Selective-Repeat ARQ.

Q9. Discuss the concept of Static routing & Dynamic routing protocols.

Q10. Differentiate between step-index & graded-index fibres.

Section -B (Detailed Answer Questions)

Q1B. Draw a hybrid topology with a bus backbone connecting two ring backbones. Each ring backbone
connects three-star networks.

Q2B. Name the types of HDLC frames and give a brief description of each. Calculate redundancy bits for
1100110 bits stream, Using Hamming code algorithm.
Q3B. Using figure:1, show the exchange of frames if;
figure:1
i) The acknowledgement is lost.
ii) Station B is not ready to receive data.

Q4B. With the help of diagrams to explain the handling of

a damaged frame & a lost frame for stop-and-wait
flow control.

Q5B. The HDLC frame shown below is sent from a

secondary to a primary.

011111100001110110010100FCS01111110
a) What is the address of the secondary?
b) What is the type of the frame?
c) What is the sender sequence number (if present)?
d) What is the acknowledgement number (if present)?
e) Does the frame carry user data? If yes, what is the value of the data?
f) Does the frame carry management data? If yes, what is the value of the data?
g) What is the purpose of the frame?

Q6B. Use a 20-bit mask to derive the available subnets of 172.16.0.0.

Write the range (that is, the numerically lowest to the numerically highest address) of available host
addresses for each subnet.

Q7B. An internetwork has been assigned the address 192.168.100.0.

Subnet this address to meet the following requirements:
- One subnet with 50 hosts - Five subnets with 10 hosts - One subnet with 25 hosts
- Four subnets with 5 hosts - Ten serial links

Q8B. Select a subnet mask for 10.0.0.0 so that there will be at least 16,000 subnets with at least 700 host
addresses available on each subnet. Select a subnet mask for 172.27.0.0 so that there are at least 500
subnets with at least 100 host addresses available on each subnet.

Q9B. A router ‘A’ has the given Distance Vector routing table, what would be the contents of the table if
the router received the Distance vector routing message from router C as shown aside?
(show your working)

Q10B. Design Routing table for both Link Static &

Distance Vector Routing for the routers B, D,
and F shown in below figure, also find the
shortest path tree (using Dijkstra’s Algorithm)
for router F

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