HIGH SPEED NETWORKS

Question Bank

UNIT I
PART- A 1. What are the data link control functions provided by LAPF? 2. What are the main features of ATM? 3. What is virtual path identifier ? 4. What is Virtual connection identifier? 5. List the levels of fiber channel and the functions of each level? 6. What is meant by SAR and CS? 7. What is the difference between AAL3/4 and AAL 5. 8. Draw the diagram for ATM layers? 9. Give the data rates for frame relay and X.25? 10. Define NIC and Ethernet. 11. What is ATM? 12. What are key difference between frame relay and X.25 packet switching service? 13. What is the need for AAL? 14. Define FAST Ethernet. 15. Define GIGABIT Ethernet. 16.define CPCS. 17. What are the service categories in ATM? 18. What is meant by real time service? 19. What is meant by constant bit rate? 20. What is meant by generic flow control? 21. What is meant by header error control? 22. What is meant bycell loss priority? 23. Draw ATM cell Format. 24. Draw ATM protocol architecture. 25. Define- user plan. 26. define-control and management plane.

PART B
1. Explains the Frame relay architecture & compare it with x.25. 2. Explain the ATM cell and explain how ATM cells are transmitted? 3. Discuss and compare the CPCS-PDU & SAR-PDU of AAL & AAL 5. 4. Explain the architecture of 802.11.

5. Explain the following: a. Classical Ethernet. b. IEEE 802.3 medium options at 10 Mbps. 6 Explain in detail a. Fast Ethernet. b. gigabit Ethernet. 7. Explain Fiber channel Protocol architecture. 8. Explain Generic Flow Control and Header error control. 9. Explain varies ATM services. 10. Explain the architecture of AAL 1. 11. Explain in detail about ATM logical connection. 12. Explain briefly about wireless LANs requirements and applications. 13. What are the services provided by ATM adaptation layer(AAL)? Explain the operations of various AAL protocols. 14. Compare Fast Ethernet and gigabit Ethernet. 15. Explain in detail about High Speed LANs.

UNIT- II
CONGESTION & TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
PART- A

1. What is the role of DE lint in Frame relay? 2. How does frame relay report congestion? 3. Write Littles formula. 4. Define Traffic intensity or utilization factor and QOS. 5. What is the difference between committed burst size (Bc) and Excess burst size (Be). 6. Define terms Router, Bridge and Gateway. 7. What is Bluetooth? 8. Distinguish between Poisson and Exponential formulae. 9. How we calculate the percentile of packets transfer at a time in traffic management technique. 10.Define Arrival rate and service rate. 11.compare multiserver and multiple server queues? 12. What is the draw back of backpressure? 13.Define throughput. 14. what are the two types of queue model? 15.Write short notes on multi server queues. 16. Write short notes on singleserver queues. 17.Describe about effect of congestion. 18. what is meant by explicit congestion control? 19. what is meant by implicit congestion control? 20. define- BECN. 21. define- FECN. 22. What is meant by congestion avoidance? 23. What is meant by congestion recovery? 24. What is meant by discard strategy? 25. what are objectives of frame relay congestion control?

PART B
1. Explain the single- server and multi server queering models. 2. At an ATM machine in a supermarket, the average length of a transaction is 2 minutes,and on average, customers arrive to use the machine once every 5 minutes, How long is the average time that a person must spend waiting and using the machine? What is the 90th percentile of residence time? On average, how many people are waiting to use the machine? Assume M/M/1. 3. Consider a frame relay node that is handling a Poisson stream of incoming frames to betransmitted on a particular 1 Mbps outgoing link. The stream consists of two types of

frames. Both types pf frames have the same exponential distribution of frame length with a mean of 1000 bits. a. Assume that priorities are not used. The combined arrival rate of frame of both types is 800 frames/second. What is the mean residences time (Tr) for all frames? b. Now assume that the two types are assigned different priorities, with the arrival rate of type 1 of 200 frames/second and the arrival rate of type 2 of 600 frames/second. Calculatethe mean residence time for type 1, type2, and overall. c. Repeat (b) for _1 = _2 = 400 frames/second. d. Repeat (b) for _1 = 600 frames/second and _2 = 200 frames/second. . 4. Messages arrive at a switching center for a particular outgoing communications line in a poisson manner with a mean arrival rate of 180 messages per hour. Message length is distributed exponentially with a mean length of 14,400 characters. Line speed is 9600 bps. a. What is the mean waiting time in the switching center? b. How many messages will be waiting in the switching center for transmission on the average? 5. a.Explain the effects of congestion. b. Explain the congestion control mechanisms in networks. 6.what is kendalls notation? State the equations single server that follows the M/G/1 model? 7. explain in any 4 congestion control mechanisms used in packet switching networks? 8. describe the effects of congestion. Explain the various congestion control techniques? 9. explain the need for queuing analysis? 10.discuss the various issues related to congestion control in a network? 11. Explain the explicit congestion control technique. Classify explicit congestion signaling approaches and explain? 12.what is the fundamental task of a queuing analysis? 13. what are the different ways of developing a queuing model? Explain how analysis is done for various models? 14.explain the various frame relay congestion control techniques?

UNIT III
TCP AND ATM CONGESTION CONTROL
PART- A

1. Define the relationship between through put and TCP window size W. 2. Why is retransmission strategy essential in TCP?

3. What are the types of retransmit policy? 4. Why congestion control in a TCP/IP-based internet is complex. 5. Define cell delay variation. 6. Define CBR. 7. What are the advantages of sliding window protocol 8. State the conditions that must be met for a cell to conform? 9. What the retransmit policies used in TCP traffic control? 10. Why congestion control is difficult to implement in TCP? 11. Define sustainable cell rate? 12. What is the use of sustainable cell rate? 13. What is meant by TCP Flow control? 13. What is meant by TCP congestion control? 14. What are the TCP implementation policy options? 15. What is the main objective of congestion control mechanisms? 16. What is the need for retransmission mechanism? 17. define-KARNs algorithm. 18. What are the ATM configurations-characteristics? 19. Compare ABR and UBR. 20. Define- UBR. 21. Define -ABR. 22. What is the difference between cell based and packet based switching? 23. Define-partial packet discards (PPD). 24. Define- fair buffer allocation (FBA). 25. what is the classification of traffic parameters.

PART B
1. Explain in detail about TCP flow control. 2. Explain the five important window management techniques. 3. Explain the congestion control mechanism in ATM networks carrying TCP traffic. 4. What are the requirements for ATM traffic and congestion control?

5. Explain in detail ABR traffic management. 6. Explain in detail GFR traffic management. 7. Explain in detail TCP congestion control 8. Explain the Retransmissions Timer management techniques. 9. Explain the ATM traffic control 10. Explain the ATM traffic related attributes. 11. What are the parameters that form the GFR traffic contract? Explain the different mechanisms that support rate guarantees? 12. Explain the various techniques used in window management of TCP? 13. Explain the various techniques used for managing retransmission timer TCP? 14. Explain the generic cell rate algorithm with the help of a flow chart? 15. What are the traffic parameters and QOS parameters defined by ATM forum? Explain. 16.write notes on TCP over ATM?

UNIT- IV
INTEGRATED AND DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES
PART- A 1. What are the requirements for inelastic traffic? 2. State the drawbacks of FIFO queering discipline. 3. What is global synchronization? 4. Distinguish between inelastic and elastic traffic. 5. Define the format of DS field. 6. What are the drawbacks of FIFO queuing disciplines?

7. What is an inelastic traffic? 8. What are the requirements for inelastic traffic? 9. What is an elastic traffic? 10. What are the key elements of controlled load service? 11. compare elastic traffic and in elastic traffic. 12. define- packet loss 13.what are the ISA components. 14. what are the ISA services. 15. what are the ISA approach. 16.what are the advantages of token bucket scheme. 17.what is meant by fair queuing(FQ)? 18. What are the drawbacks of FIFO queuing discipline? 19. what is meant by processor sharing (PS)? 20. what are the advantages and disadvantages of fair queuing(FQ)? 21. what is meant by bit-round fair queuing (BRFQ)? 22. what is meant by GPS? 23. what is meant by WFQ? 24.define random early detection. 25. what are the characteristics of differentiated services?

PART B
1. Explain the block diagram for Integrated Services Architecture

2. Explain the services offered by ISA 3. Explain the various queering disciplines in ISA. 4. Explain the RED algorithm. 5. Explain the various types of Traffic. 6. Explain the various queuing discipline used in ISA implementation? 7. Explain the different types of PHB? 8. Explain briefly about Differentiated services. 9. What are the design goals for RED? Explain the RED algorithm in detail? 10. What are the components of ISA? Explain. 11. Explain in details about Integrated Services Architecture components and services. 12. Explain the services provided by ISA and DS. 13. Explain the bit-round fair queuing (BRFQ) discipline and compare with PS? 14. Explain fair queuing and weighted fair queuing using an example? 15. Write the RED algorithm and explain how it is used to manage congestion in internets.

UNIT-V
PROTOCOLS FOR QOS SUPPORT
PART- A 1. What are the reservations attributes and styles in RSVP. 2. Define Forwarding equivalence class (FEC). 3. Define MPLS label format in RSVP. 4. Compare hop lug hop routing and explicit routing. 5. Define the format of RTP header. 6. What is a mixer in RTP? 7. What is wild card filter style? 8. Draw the diagram which shows the relationship among session, flow spec and filter spec.

9. What is the use of translator in RTP? 10. define-RSVP. 11. What is meant by uni cast transmission? 12. What is meant by multicast transmission? 13. what are the characteristics of RSVP? 14. what are the design goalsof RSVP? 15. what is meant by partial routing? 16. what is fixed filter (FF) style? 17. what is shared explicit (SE) style? 18. What are the two types of messages in RSVP? 19. What is key element of MPLS? 20. what is meant by label switching path (LSP)? 21.what are the key features of MPLS operation. 22. What is meant by label stacking/ 23. What is meant by time to live processing? 24.What is meant by RTP? 25. What is meant by RTCP?

PART B
1. Explain the characteristics of RSVP & the types of data flow. 2. Explain the operation of multi protocol label switching. 3 Explain the RTP protocol architecture. 4. Explain the MPLS characteristics and advantages. 5. Explain the RSVP operation and protocol mechanisms. 6. Explain the RTP data transfer protocol. 7. Explain the RSVP operation and protocol mechanisms 8. Explain in details about Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). 9. Explain briefly about RSVP goals and characteristics. 10. What are the different RTCP packet types define in RFC 1889. explain their use in RTCP transmission.

11. Give the RTP packet format and describe the use of each field? 12. Explain the features of label stacking in MPLS? 13. What are the functions that are performed by RTCP and explain the RTCP transmission in detail? 14. Explain the reasons why TCP is not suitable for real applications. Also explain the need for RTP? 15. Describe the characteristics of MPLS?

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