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6. (i) What do you understand by FDDI ? Discuss its February-2022
objectives, relevance and usefulness. 8 DATA COMMUNICATION AND
(ii) What are sliding window protocols ? What are the NETWORKING
advantages and disadvantages of credits versus (BCA-303)
sliding window protocols ? Explain. 8 Time allowed : 3 hours] [Maximum marks : 80
7. Explain the following :
Note : Question No. - 1 is compulsory. Attempt four
(i) Random Access Protocols 6
questions by selecting one question from each unit.
(ii) Token Ring 5 All questions carry equal marks.
(iii) Gateways 5
1. Answer the following : 8 × 2 = 16
Unit - IV
(i) Why is it necessary to limit the band of a signal
8. What do you mean by routing ? What are its objectives ? before performing sampling ?
What are different routing algorithms ? Discuss pros (ii) Name two well known data transport protocols
and cons of the major routing algorithms. 16 provided by the Internet Transport Layer.
9. Explain the following : (iii) What do you understand by protocol hierarchies ?
(i) Congestion control mechanisms 8 (iv) Out of the three digital-to-analog modulation
(ii) TCP/IP protocol architecture 8 techniques, which one requires higher bandwidth ?
(v) How Manchester encoding helps in achieving
better synchronization ?
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(vi) What are bridges ? Outline their significance. (ii) What do you mean by X.25 ? How does it work ?
Illustrate its significance. 6
(vii) Why does impulse noise have more effect on
Unit - II
digital signals rather than on analog signals ?
4. (i) What are transmission errors ? How are these
(viii) What are the possible digital-to-analog
detected and corrected ? Illustrate. 7
modulation techniques ?
(ii) Differentiate between the following : 9
Unit - I
(a) Analog and Digital Signals
2. (i) What is an IP packet ? What is the minimum (b) Base-band and Broad-band transmission
overhead in sending an IP packet using PPP ? Count (c) Synchronous and Asynchronous transmission
only the overhead introduced by PPP itself, not 5. (i) What is data encoding ? Illustrate the difference
the IP header overhead. 8 between Manchester and differential encoding.
(ii) What is OSI reference model ? Illustrate the 5
model by detailing out all-important features. 8 (ii) What is bandwidth of a channel ? Discuss the main
3. (i) What is 'Network Topology' ? What are various factors on which channel's bandwidth depends. 5
types of network topologies ? Discuss benefits (iii) What is multiplexing ? List different types of
and limitations of these topologies over one multiplexing techniques possible for signals and
another. 10 outline the working of each. 6
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