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This document contains a question paper for an examination on Communication Networks. It includes 3 parts - Part A contains 10 short answer questions, Part B contains 5 long answer questions, and Part C contains 1 long numerical question. The questions cover topics such as transmission impairment, link layer addressing, OSI model layers, IPv4 security, autonomous systems, multicasting vs multiple unicasting, connectionless vs connection-oriented transport services, UDP vs TCP, socket addressing, channel capacity, scrambling, ARP packet size, binary representations, line coding, wired vs wireless LAN mediums and MAC protocols, CSMA/CA strategies, collision avoidance, hidden and exposed stations, link-state vs distance-vector routing, IPv6 format, DV

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Electronics and Communication Engineering: Question Paper Code: X10366

This document contains a question paper for an examination on Communication Networks. It includes 3 parts - Part A contains 10 short answer questions, Part B contains 5 long answer questions, and Part C contains 1 long numerical question. The questions cover topics such as transmission impairment, link layer addressing, OSI model layers, IPv4 security, autonomous systems, multicasting vs multiple unicasting, connectionless vs connection-oriented transport services, UDP vs TCP, socket addressing, channel capacity, scrambling, ARP packet size, binary representations, line coding, wired vs wireless LAN mediums and MAC protocols, CSMA/CA strategies, collision avoidance, hidden and exposed stations, link-state vs distance-vector routing, IPv6 format, DV

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Reg. No.

Question Paper Code : X10366

B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2020

Fifth Semester

Electronics and Communication Engineering

EC8551 – Communication Networks

(Common to: Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)

(Regulations 2017)

Time: 3 Hours Answer ALL Questions Max. Marks 100

PART- A (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

1. Define transmission impairment. What are some of the main reasons of


transmission impairment?
2. Is it possible to have two hosts in different networks to have same link layer
address? Explain.
3. Data Link Control (DLC) and Media Access Control (MAC) are part of which
layer in OSI model? What is their role?
4. What is the major drawback of IPv4 in terms of security? How it is rectified?
5. Name and compare three different types of Autonomous Systems (ASs).
6. Explain briefly the difference between multicasting and multiple unicasting.
7. Explain briefly how the connectionless and connection-oriented services in
transport-layer protocol are different from these services in Network-layer
protocol.
8. UDP is a message-oriented protocol while TCP is a byte-oriented protocol. If an
application needs to protect the boundaries of its message, which protocol should
be used, UDP or TCP?
9. A source socket address is a combination of an IP address and a post number.
Explain what each section identifies.
10. In a non-persistent HTTP connection, how can HTTP inform the TCP protocol that
the end of the message has been reached?
PART- B (5 x 13 = 65 Marks)

11. a) (i) For the following parameters find theoretical capacity of the channel: (6)
I. Bandwidth: 10 KHz and SNRdB =20
II. Bandwidth: 150KHz and SNRdB=8
III. Bandwidth: 2 MHz and SNRdB =10
(ii) What is Scrambling and why it is used? (4)
(iii) Is the size of the ARP packet fixed? Explain. (3)

(OR)

b) (i) Answer the following questions: (7)


I. What is the polynomial representation of 110111?
II. What is the result of shifting 111000 three bits to the left?
III. Repeat part (ii) using polynomials.
IV. What is the result of shifting 110011 four bits to the right?
V. Repeat part (iv) using polynomials.
(ii) What is line coding? Why it is used? Give 3 examples of line coding
schemes. (6)

12. a) (i) Compare the medium of a wired LAN with that of a wireless LAN in
today’s communication environment. Explain why the MAC protocol is
more important in wireless LANs than in wired LANs? (7)
(ii) Explain briefly why collision is an issue in random access protocols but
not in controlled access protocols or channelization protocols. (6)

(OR)

b) (i) Briefly discuss some of the collision avoidance strategies in CSMA/CA.


What is the purpose of NAV in CSMA/CA? (7)
(ii) Explain how hidden and exposed station problems are addressed in
wireless LANs? (6)

13. a) (i) Differentiate between Link-state and Distance-vector routing? (7)


(ii) Explain IPv6 datagram format with suitable diagram. (6)

(OR)

b) (i) Explain the steps used By DVMRP router to create a source-based tree.
(7)
(ii) Differentiate between compatible and mapped addresses. Briefly discuss
their applications. (6)

14. a) (i) Explain the services offered by TCP to process at the application layer.
(6)
(ii) Describe the token bucket mechanism for congestion control. With which
other technique is token bucket usually combined to achieve complete flow
control? What problems in the simpler approach are addressed by using a
token bucket mechanism? (7)
(OR)

b) (i) Sketch the TCP segment format and discuss it in detail. (6)

(ii) I. Consider a reliable data transfer protocol that uses only negative
acknowledgements. Suppose the sender sends data only infrequently. Would
a NAK- only protocol be preferable to a protocol that uses ACKs? Why? (4)
II. Now suppose the sender has a lot of data to send and the end-to-end
connection experiences few losses. In this second case, would a NAK-only
protocol be preferable to a protocol that uses ACKs? Why? (3)

15. a) (i) FTP uses the services of TCP for exchanging control information and data
transfer. Could FTP have used the services of UDP for either of these two
connections? Explain. (4)
(ii) Differentiate between a substitution cipher and a transposition cipher. (4)
(iii) What are the advantages and disadvantages of a decentralized P2P
network? (5)

(OR)

b) (i) What do you think would happen if the control connection were served
before the end of an FTP session? Would it affect the data connection? (4)
(ii) Differentiate between message authentication and entity authentication.
(4)
(iii) Differentiate between centralized and decentralized P2P networks. (5)

PART- C (1 x 15 = 15 Marks)

16. a) Suppose 6 host machines and 1 router are connected by a company network
consisting of 3 subnets. The configuration is given in the following table:

Subnets Host IP-Addresses Router IP-Addresses


66.25.48.0/22 66.25.48.1 66.25.48.44
66.25.52.0/23 66.25.52.1 66.25.52.22
66.25.56.0/23 66.25.52.2 66.25.56.11
66.25.53.1
66.25.56.1
66.25.56.3

(i)Draw a diagram to represent this configuration.


(ii) Draw the forwarding table for the host machine with IP address
66.25.52.2.
(iii) Suppose an additional host machine is connected to the company
network. For each of the following IP addresses, either give the subnet to
which this IP address belongs, or state that it is not a valid IP address for any
of the subnets.
(a) 66.25.50.1
(b) 66.25.58.1
(OR)

b) Consider two hosts, A and B, connected by 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.
(i) Express the propagation delay, dprop, in terms of m and s.
(ii) Determine the transmission time of the packet, dtrans, in terms of L
and R.
(iii) Ignoring processing and queueing delays, obtain an expression for
the end-to-end-delay.
(iv) Suppose Host A begins to transmit the packet at time t = 0. At
time t = dtrans, where is the last bit of the packet?
(v) Suppose dprop is greater than dtrans. At time t = dtrans, where is the
first bit of the packet?
(vi) Suppose dprop is less than dtrans. At time t = dtrans, where is the first
bit of the packet?
(vii) Suppose s = 2.5x108, L = 100 bits, and R=28 kbps. Find distance
m so that dprop equals dtrans.

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