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This document contains 20 questions about data communication topics including network topologies, transmission delay factors, bandwidth calculations, standards organizations, signal properties, cable types and optical fiber advantages. Specifically, it asks about the number of links required for different network topologies, which internet applications are most delay-sensitive, the difference between point-to-point and multipoint telephone connections, comparing the telephone network to the internet, decomposing composite signals, distinguishing between transmission types, calculating total gain through cascaded amplifiers, theoretical channel capacity, improving rate by modifying bandwidth and SNR, identifying dominant delay components, propagation and transmission delays for packet transmission, supporting users under circuit and packet switching, probability calculations for simultaneous users, necessities for communication standards, defining

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CSE-214 Data Communication: DB DB DB

This document contains 20 questions about data communication topics including network topologies, transmission delay factors, bandwidth calculations, standards organizations, signal properties, cable types and optical fiber advantages. Specifically, it asks about the number of links required for different network topologies, which internet applications are most delay-sensitive, the difference between point-to-point and multipoint telephone connections, comparing the telephone network to the internet, decomposing composite signals, distinguishing between transmission types, calculating total gain through cascaded amplifiers, theoretical channel capacity, improving rate by modifying bandwidth and SNR, identifying dominant delay components, propagation and transmission delays for packet transmission, supporting users under circuit and packet switching, probability calculations for simultaneous users, necessities for communication standards, defining

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CSE-214 Data Communication

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Assignment No-1

1. For n devices in a network,what is the number of cable links required for a mesh,ring, bus,and star topology?
2. Performance is inversely related to delay.When you use the Internet, which of the following applications are more sensitive
to delay?
(a) Sending an e-mail
(b) Copying a file
(c) Surfing the Internet
3. When a party makes a local telephone call to another party,is this a point-to-point or multipoint connection? Explain your
answer.
4. Compare the telephone network and the Internet. What are the similarities? What are the differences?
5. How can a composite signal be decomposed into its individual frequencies?
6. Distinguish between the following
(a) Baseband transmission and Broadband transmission
(b) Low-pass channel and a Band-pass channel
7. What is the bandwidth of the composite signal shown in Figure 1

Figure 1: Composite Signal

8. A periodic composite signal contains frequencies from 10 to 30KHz,each with an amplitude of 10V.Draw the frequency
spectrum.
9. A non-periodic composite signal contains frequencies from 10 to 30KHz.The peak amplitude is 10V for the lowest and the
highest signals and is 30V for the 20-KHz signal.Assuming that the amplitudes change gradually from the minimum to the
maximum,draw the frequency spectrum.
10. A signal has passed through three cascaded amplifiers, each with a 4dB gain. What is the total gain? How much is the
signal amplified?
11. What is the theoretical capacity of a channel in each of the following cases:
(a) Bandwidth:20KHz SNRdB =40
(b) Bandwidth:200KHz SNRdB =4
(c) Bandwidth:1MHz SNRdB =20
12. We need to upgrade a channel to a higher bandwidth.Answer the following questions:
(a) How is the rate improved if we double the bandwidth?
(b) How is the rate improved if we double the SNR?
13. What is the total delay(latency)for a frame of size 5 million bits that is being sent on a link with 10 routers each having a
queuing time of 2 s and a processing time of 1 s. The length of the link is 2000Km.The speed of light inside the link is
2 108 m
s . The link has a bandwidth of 5Mbps.Which component of the total delay is dominant? Which one is negligible?
14. Consider two hosts, A and B, connected by a single link of rate R bps. Suppose that the two hosts are separated by m
meters, and suppose the propagation speed along the link is s meters/sec. Host A is to send a packet of size L bits to Host
B.
(a) Express the propagation delay, dprop , in terms of m and s.
(b) Determine the transmission time of the packet, dtrans , in terms of L
(c) Ignoring processing and queuing delays, obtain an expression for the end-to-end delay and R.
(d) Suppose Host A begins to transmit the packet at time t = 0. At time t = dtrans , where is the last bit of the packet?
(e) Suppose dprop is greater than dtrans . At time t = dtrans , where is the first bit of the packet?
(f) Suppose dprop is less than dtrans . At time t = dtrans , where is the first bit of the packet?
(g) Suppose s = 2.5 108, L = 120 bits, and R = 56 kbps. Find the distance m so that dprop equals dtrans .
15. Suppose users share a 3 Mbps link. Also suppose each user requires 150 kbps when transmitting, but each user transmits
only 10 percent of the time.
(a) When circuit switching is used, how many users can be supported?
(b) For the remainder of this problem, suppose packet switching is used. Find the probability that a given user is
transmitting.
(c) Suppose there are 120 users. Find the probability that at any given time, exactly n users are transmitting simultane-
ously. (Hint: Use the binomial distribution.)
(d) Find the probability that there are 21 or more users transmitting simultaneously.
16. Why do we need standards in data communication? Name at least 3 standards organisation in this context.
17. Define the following terms in max two lines
(a) Frequency
(b) Amplitude
(c) Phase
(d) Time period
(e) Aperiodic signal
(f) Bit interval
(g) Bit rate
(h) Bit length
(i) Phase shift
(j) Time domain graph
(k) Frequency domain graph
(l) Bandwidth
(m) Throughput
(n) Latency
(o) Attenuation
(p) Noise
(q) SNR
18. Write the expression for
(a) item Nyquist expression for noiseless channel
(b) Shanon expression for noisy channel
19. Compare the following
(a) Shielded twisted pair and unshielded twisted pair cable
(b) Radio wave communication and microwave communication
(c) Step index OFC and Graded index OFC
20. What are the advantages of Optical fiber cable over other guided medium cables?

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