DC, QUESTION BANK

“MODULE I”
“INTRODUCTION, PHYSICAL LAYER-1”

NOTE: Questions which are written in bold letters are appeared in

previous year question papers.

1. What is data communication? What are its four fundamental characteristics? With
a neat diagram, explain the components of data communication system-08 marks
2. Assume that a)five devices AND b)fifty devices are connected in a mesh topology.
How many cables are needed? How many ports are needed for each device? 02
marks
3. What is data communication? Explain with neat sketch three types of
communications between the devices considering data flow-06 marks
OR

What is DC? What are different modes of communication?

4. With neat sketch, explain two types of wide area network in use.-04 marks
5. What do you mean by the term- data communication? Explain the different forms
of data representation.-06 mark
6. List out the functionalities of physical layer, data link layer and network layer.
Explain in brief-06 mark
7. Give four levels of addresses used in TCP/IP protocol and give its significances. -04
mark
OR

Explain the different levels of addressing used in an internet with a suitable example
for each level of addressing in TCP/IP?- 10 MARK

8. Differentiate between i) ARP and RARP ii) UDP and TCP iii) ICMP and IGMP -
06 mark

Page 1
 DC, QUESTION BANK

9. What is the difference between a physical and logical address? Explain with
example- 05 mark
10. With a neat diagram, exp[lain the interaction between layers in the OSI model- 10
mark
11. Define network topology, explain ring topology with advantages and disadvantages.-
05 mark
12. What is physical topology? Describe the four basic topologies-08 mark
OR
What is physical topology? Explain diff topologies with advantages and disadvantages
13. Explain in detail the categories of networks and differentiate between them-10 mark
OR

Give the comparison between LAN,WAN and MAN-06 MARK

14. Explain in detail the concept of protocol layering along with its principles.
15. Explain Encapsulation and Decapsulation-05 marks
16. Explain Multiplexing and demultiplexing-05 marks
17. Give the reasons for Lack of OSI Model’s success-05 mark
18. Define network. Explain network criteria-05 marks.
19. Explain Physical structures-02 marks
20. Explain the layered architecture of TCP/IP protocol suite
21. Explain in detail, the layers in TCP/IP protocol suite & Explain addressing in TCP/IP
protocol suite
22. With a neat diag, explain the functionalities of each layer of OSI reference model-10
mark-10 mark
OR

Discuss ISO-OSI layered model, bring out the functionalities of each layer-10 mark

23. Give diff between OSI and TCP/IP architechture. Give reasons for lack of OSI model
success

Page 2
 DC, QUESTION BANK

24. What is switching? Explain circuit switched network and packet switched network-06
marks
25. Differentiate between circuit switched, datagram networks and virtual circuit
networks-05 marks
26. Write a note on Accessing the internet-04 marks
27. Briefly explain Internet History-05 mark
28. Write a short note on internet standards. How standards are made? -06 marks
29. Write a short note on internet administration-05 mark
30. Define the following terms: i)internet ii) The Internet iii) protocol-03 mark
31. Explain the transmission of digital signals-10 mark
OR

Explain in detail, base band and Broadband transmission-10 marks

32. What are the factors on which data rate depends in DC?-04 mark

33. Explain with the block diagram, the causes for transmission impairement-09 mark
OR

Explain the different causes for transmission impairement during signal

transmission through media -06-08 mark

34. What is line coding? With a neat diagram explain all line coding schemes-10 mark
OR

Explain with neat weave form any two polar line coding schemes-06 marks

What is line coding? Represent the sequence “01001110” using NRZ-L, NRZ-I and
Manchester, differtential Manchester, RZ and AMI coding schemes —06 marks

OR

Page 3
 DC, QUESTION BANK

What is line coding? Represent the sequence “101000110” using Biphase and
Bipolar schemes N(RZ-L, NRZ-I and Manchester, differtential Manchester, RZ and
AMI coding )schemes —10 marks

OR

What is line coding? Represent the sequence “101101” using NRZ-L, NRZ-I and
Manchester, differtential Manchester, RZ and AMI coding schemes & write average
signal rate for each schemes —08 marks

OR

What is line coding? Represent the sequence “101011100” using NRZ-L, NRZ-I and
Manchester, differtential Manchester, RZ and AMI coding schemes —10marks

35. A network with bandwidth of 10 Mbps can pass only an average of 18,000 frames
per minute with each frame carrying an average of 10,000 bits. What is the
throughput of this network?—04 MARK

36. Explain the following a)Bandwidth b)Throghput c)Transmission time d) Latency e)

Jitter -05 MARK

37. What is latency? List out its components. Find the total delay in a line of length 2000
km, to transfer 5 M bytes of data if band width is 1 Gbps-04 mark
OR

Define latency. Briefly explain the components of latency. What are the propagation
time and the transmission time for a 5-MB (megabyte) message (an image) if the
bandwidth of the network is 1 Mbps? Assume that the distance between the sender
and the receiver is 12,000 km and that light travels at 2.4×108m/s --08 MARKS

38. Define the following:

Page 4
 DC, QUESTION BANK

a. FSK b. Bandwidth of composite signal c. Base band transmission d. Broad band

transmission e. SNR f. Nyquist bit rate- 06 mark
39. Define Nyquist bit rate and Shannon capacity.What are the propagation time and
the transmission time for a 2.5-kbyte message (an e-mail) if the bandwidth of the
network is 1 Gbps? Assume that the distance between the sender and the receiver is
12,000 km and that light travels at 2.4 × 10^8 m/s -08 marks
OR

Discuss Nyquist bit rate and Shannon’s channel capacity -06 mark

40. The loss in a cable defined in decibels/km (dB/km). If the signal at the beginning of a
cable with -3dB/km has a power of 3 mW. What is the power of the signal at 5 km?
06 marks
41. Distinguish between low pass channel and band pass channel- 06 marks

42. What is protocol? Discuss key elements of protocol

43. Concentrate problems on
a. Line coding
b. Throughput and latency( delay calculation)
c. Data rate limits (Nyquist bit rate, Shanon capacity)
d. SNR (dB)

Page 5
 DC, QUESTION BANK

“MODULE 2”

“PHYSICAL LAYER-2”

1. Explain the PCM technique used for analog to digital conversion. Taking suitable
example-08 marks.
OR
Give the block diagram PCM encoder and state the role of each processes.-04 marks
OR
Explain the PCM encoder-08 marks
OR
Explain with a neat diagram, the components of a PCM encoder- 10 marks

2. Explain the transmission modes 06-10 marks

3. Explain briefly the following along with wave forms:

a. Amplitude Shift Keying
b. Frequency Shift Keying -06 marks
OR
With the help of neat wave forms, explain the following -06 mark
I .Binary ASK II. Binary FSK III. Binary FSK
OR

Page 6
 DC, QUESTION BANK

With the help of a neat diagram, explain the ASK, FSK and PSK. Discuss the
bandwidth requirement in each case—10 mark
OR
Explain the different types of digital-to-analog conversion—10 mark

4. All Solved problems

5. What is TDM? Explain in detail (07 marks)

6. What is multiplexing? Differentiate synchronous TDM with statistical TDM giving
the working of both procedures in brief. (06 marks)
7. State and explain the data rate management to handle disparity in input data rates
in TDM(04 marks)
8. Explain in brief FHSS technique(06 marks)
9. What is multiplexing? With neat diagram, explain FDM (06 marks)
10. What is spread spectrum? Explain with an example direct sequence spread
spectrum(06 marks)
OR

What is spread spectrum? Explain the following techniques for spread spectrum:
FHSS and DSSS-10 mark

11. Explain frequency hopping spread spectrum (10 marks)

12. What is FDM? Briefly explain its multiplexing and demultiplexing process (06
marks)
13. What is time division time division time multiplexing? Explain how statistical TDM
overcomes the disadvantage of synchronus TDM (08 marks)
14. Explain how TDM differs from FDM, with a neat diagram (04 marks)
15. Explain FDM and synchronus TDM with an example-10 MARK
16. Four 1-kbps connections are multiplexed together. A unit is 1 bit. Find (a) the
duration of 1 bit before multiplexing, (b) the transmission rate of the link, (c) the
duration of a time slot, and (d) the duration of a frame.-05 mark
Page 7
 DC, QUESTION BANK

17. We have four sources, each creating 250 charactersper second. If the interleaved
unit is a character and 1 synchronizing bit is added to each frame, find (1) the data
rate of each source, (2) the duration of each character in each source, (3) the frame
rate, (4) the duration of each frame,(5) the number of bits in each frame,and (6) the
data rate of the link.-06 mark
18. A multiplexer combines four 100-kbps channels using a time slot of 2 bits. Show the
output with four arbitrary inputs. What is the frame rate? What is the frame
duration? What is the bit rate? What is the bit duration? -04 mark
19. Explain virtual circuit network with an example, and also briefly discuss the phases
-10 m
20. List out the differences between datagram switching and virtual circuit switching-
04m
21. With a neat diagram, explain hoe message can be sent from one system to another
using datagram networks-08m
22. Diffewrentiate between circuit switched, datagram networks and virtual circuit
networks-05m
23. With relevant diagrams, explain the data transfer phase in a virtual circuit
network-10m
24. What is switching? Differentiate circuit switch network with-packet switched
network-04 m

Page 8
 DC, QUESTION BANK

“MODULE 3”

“ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION, DLC”

1. How does datawords and codewords is represented in block coding and also explain
how can errors be detected and corrected by using block coding -10 marks

2. Find the code word using CRC given data “1101” and generator “1100”-05 marks

3. Find codeword, using cyclic redundancy code given generator 1011, data word 1001
and show how it is used to check for error detection in the receiver side.-08 marks

4. Write a note on error detection method using 16 bit checksum used in internet.
Calculate checksum for a text “Food” given ASCII values of F is 46, o is 6F and d is
64-06marks

5. Find the codeword c(x), using CRC for the information d(x)=x3+1 with generator
polynomial t(x)=x3+x+1. -08 marks

Page 9
 DC, QUESTION BANK

6. Define hamming distance. Explain simple parity check code C(5,4) with dmin=2.
How many bits can be corrected-06 mark

7. Explain with an example. The computation of internet checksum. List the steps
undertaken by the sender and receiver for error detection-06 marks

8. Find the code word using CRC given data “1001” and generator “1011”-05 marks

9. Describe different types of errors-03 marks

10. Explain error detection and correction with respect to block coding-08 marks

11. Explain CRC error detection method with an example.-06 marks

12. What is internet checksum? If a sender needs to send four data items 0*3456,
0*ABCC, 0*02BC and 0*EEEE, answer the following:
i) Find the checksum at sender site
ii) Find the checksum at receiver site if there is no error. 10 martks

13. Explain with an example of block coding for error detection and correction? -10
marks

14. 1What is Hamming Distance? Find the minimum Hamming distance of the coding
scheme shown in the table-04 marks
Dataword Codeword

Page 10
 DC, QUESTION BANK

01 00000
02 01011
10 10101

11 11110

15. Draw a CRC encoder and decoder for CRC code with C (7, 4). Also explain how this
CRC design works with an example. -10 marks

16. Explain the structure of Encoder and decoder for a parity check-04 mark

17. What is FEC? Discuss its techniques-10 marks

18. Why bit stuffing and byte stuffing are needed? Explain them, with examples-06
mark

19. Explain in detail, the two protocols of noiseless channel-10 mark

20. Explain stop-and-wait ARQ protocol with neat diagram-08 mark

21. Explain SIMPLE protocol with neat diagram-08 mark

22. What is framing? Explain bit and character stuffing with an example-04 marks

23. Write a short notes on HDLC-08 mark

24. Explain the format of HDLC Protocol—08 mark.

25. Explain the frame format and transitional phases of point to point protocol-08 mark

26. Explain the different frame types in HDLC-06 mark

Page 11
 DC, QUESTION BANK

27. Explain the frame format of PPP Protocol—04 mark

28. Write a short note on piggybacking-04 mark

“MODULE 4”

“MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL, WIRED LAN, WIRELESS LAN, , IEEE 802.11

PROJECT AND BLUETOOTH.”
1. What is random access? Explain following random access protocols i) Slotted
ALOHA ii)CSMA/CD=08 marks
2. Describe pure ALOHA and slotted ALOHA -10 MARK
3. What is Channelization? List and explain the channelization protocols --10 MARK
4. Describe CSMA/CD protocol with neat flow diagram—06 MARK
5. What is Channelization? Explain CODE division multiple access, with an example-
08 MARK
6. Explain working of CDMA with suitable example-06 MARK
OR

Explain with the help of an example, how encoding and decoding is done in CDMA
technique-08 marks

Page 12
 DC, QUESTION BANK

7. Explain CSMA & CSMA/CD-12 MARK

8. With a flow diagram, explain the working of CSMA/CD—10 MARK
9. With a flow diagram, explain the working of CSMA/CA—10 MARK
10. Explain the three persistence methods of CSMA-06 marks
11. How does p-persistent method improve efficiency?-02 marks
12. Explain the following channelization technique i) TDMA ii) CDMA -10 MARK
13. Explain why collision is an issue in a random access protocol but not in controlled
access or channelizing protocols? -04 MARK
14. Explain any two popular control access methods, with a neat diagram- 08 MARK
15. Explain different control access methods -10 MARK
16. Define channelization and explain its three protocols with diagrams – 10 MARK
17. Compare and contrast ALOHA protocol & CSMA/CD -06 MARK
18. Comment on Token management- 04 MARK
19. Explain Vulnerable time an Throughput wrt pure ALOHA and slotted ALOHA- 08
MARK
20. PROBLEMS on i) Throughput calculation wrt pure ALOHA and slotted ALOHA
ii) CSMA/CD (Calculating min time req to detect collision and calculating min
frame size)
21. A ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames on a shared channel of 200 kbps.
What is the throughput if the system (all stations together) produces?
a. 1000 frames per second b. 500 frames per second
c. 250 frames per second d.750 frames per second (04 marks)

22. A slotted ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames on a shared channel of 200
kbps. What is the throughput if the system (all stations together) produces?
a. 1000 frames per second b. 500 frames per second
c. 250 frames per second d.750 frames per second (04 marks)

23. Explain MAC sub layer of gigabit Ethernet-06 marks

24. Discuss 802.3 MAC frame format and frame length-06 mark
OR

Page 13
 DC, QUESTION BANK

Explain 802.3 MAC frame format-08 mark

OR
Explain 802.3 MAC frame format and frame length-10 mark
OR
Give the details of minimum and maximum length of Ethernet frame. With an
example, explain the format of Ethernet address.-06 marks
25. Explain IEEE Project 802- 05 mark
26. Explain and differentiate addressing wrt ETHERNET (05-10) mark
27. Explain standard ETHERNET implimentations-10 mark
28. Explain Gigabit Ethernet implementations-10 mark
29. Give the goals of Ten-Gigabit Ethernet-05 mark
30. Explain the different types of addressing mechanism in IEEE 802.11 –(05-6) mark
31. Describe the MAC layers in IEEE 802.11 standard-06 marks
32. Define Bluetooth and explain the architecture of Bluetooth-05 mark
33. With a neat sketch, explain BSS and ESS-06 MARKS
34. With neat diagram, explain layers of Bluetooth-05 mark
35. Explain the architecture of IEEE 802.11 in detail -10 mark
36. What do you mean by hidden and exposed station problems in IEEE 802.11
protocol-6 mark
OR
Explain Hidden and Exposed Station problems in IEEE 802.11- 10 mark
37. With neat diagram , explain the architecture of Piconet and Scatternet Bluetooth
networks-6 mark
OR
Show two types of networks used in Bluetooth. Explain in brief the same-06 marks
38. Explain the services of IEEE 802.11 standards-04 mark
39. Write a short note on Bluetooth-05 mark
OR
Discuss Bluetooth technology- 10 mark

Page 14
 DC, QUESTION BANK

40. Write a short note on TDD TDMA-05 mark

“MODULE 5”

“OTHER WIRELESS NETWORKS: WIMAX, CELLULAR TELEPHONY,

SATELLITE NETWORKS NETWORK LAYER- PROTOCOLS”

1. Explain in detail IPV6 packet format—08-10m

2. Explain in detail IPV4 packet format—08-10m
OR

Give the IPV4 datagram format and brief description of each field-10 marks

3. Give a comparison between IPV4 and IPV6-05m

4. Explain the following fields in IPV4 packet header: 06m

Page 15
 DC, QUESTION BANK

a. Identification b. flags c. fragmentation offset

5. What is the need to change from IPV4 to IPV6? Write IPV6 basic header and
describe its fields- 08-10m
6. Explain IPV6 header format with its extension headers—10m
7. Explain briefly the advantages of IPV6--05 m
8. Explain in detail, the transition from IPv4 to IPV6—10 m
9. Explain in detail, the ICMPV4 protocol--10 m
10. Explain in detail, the ICMPV6 protocol--10 m
11. Write a short note on cellular telephony (06 marks)
12. Write a short note on satellite networks (05 marks)
13. Write a short note on other wireless networks (05 marks)
14. Explain briefly the three categories of satellites- 10 marks
15. Write a note on GSM-05 marks
OR

Explain the working of global system for mobile (GSM) in dfetail-08 marks

16. Write a note on cellular telephone-05 marks

17. With neat diagram, describe cellular telephony network-06 marks
18. Give WiMAX MAC frame format-05 mark
19. Explain frequency reuse, hand off and roaming concepts in cellular telephony-06
marks
20. Explain the five standard of IMT – 2000 radio- interface of 3G systems?-06
marks

Page 16