Computer network Assignment question

Q1) List the five parts of a system for data communications.

Q2)Which three requirements must a network meet in order to be effective and efficient?

Q3) How do half-duplex and full-duplex communication modes differ from one another?

Q4) List the four fundamental network topologies and explain the benefits of each.

Q5)How many cable links are needed in a network with n devices in order to have a mesh, ring, bus, or
star topology?

Q6) Let's say that six devices are set up in a mesh configuration. What number of cables are required?

For every gadget, how many ports are required?

Q7) In the Internet model, what are the duties of the data link layer?

Q8) In the Internet model, what are the duties of the network layer?

Q9)In the Internet model, what are the duties of the transport layer?

Q10)What distinguishes a physical address, logical address, and port address?

Q11) A network with bandwidth of 10 Mbps can pass only an average of 12,000 frames per minute

with each frame carrying an average of 10,000 bits. What is the throughput of this network?

Q12) What is the propagation time if the distance between the two points is 12,000 km? Assume the

propagation speed to be 2.4 x 108 mls in cable.

Q13) 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 x 108 mls.

Q14)What is the difference between circuit switching and packet switching?

Q15) The Hamming distance of a code scheme is dmin = 4. What is this scheme's error detection and
correction capability?

Q16) What is the Hamming distance? What is the minimum Hamming distance?

Q17|)_What is the Hamming distance for each of the following codewords:

a. d (10000, 00000)

b. d (10101, 10000)

c. d (11111,11111)

d. d (000, 000)

18) Find the minimum Hamming distance for the following cases:

a. Detection of two en-ors.

b. Correction of two errors.

c. Detection of 3 errors or correction of 2 errors.

d. Detection of 6 errors or correction of 2 errors.)

Q19) Assume that in a Stop-and-Wait ARQ system, the line has a 1 Mbps bandwidth and that a
single bit travels a distance of 20 ms in a round trip. What is the product of bandwidth and delay?
Given that the system data frames have a length of 1000 bits, what is the link's utilization
percentage?

Q20) Explain byte-stuffing and bit-stuffing technique?

Q21) What is piggybacking and why is it useful?

Q22) A pure ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames on a shared channel of 200 kbps. What
is the requirement to make this frame collision-free?

Q23) A pure 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

Q24) A slotted ALOHA network transmits 200-bit frames using a shared channel with a 200-
kbps bandwidth. Find the throughput if the system (all stations together) produces

a. 1000 frames per second

b. 500 frames per second

Q25) A network using CSMA/CD has a bandwidth of 10 Mbps. If the maximum propagation
time is 25.611S, what is the minimum size of the frame?

Q26)Explain bridge,router and hub?

Q27)What is the concept of subnetting and supernetting?

Q28) A block of addresses is granted to a small organization. We know that one of the addresses
is 205.16.37.39/28. What is the first address in the block?

Q29) An ISP is granted a block of addresses starting with 190.100.0.0/16 (65,536 addresses).
The ISP needs to distribute these addresses to three groups of customers as follows:

a. The first group has 64 customers; each needs 256 addresses.

b. The second group has 128 customers; each needs 128 addresses.

c. The third group has 128 customers; each needs 64 addresses.

Design the subblocks and find out how many addresses are still available after these allocations.

Q30)what is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6?

Q31)Explain IPv4 datagram format?

Q32) In an IPv4 packet, the value of HLEN is 1000 in binary. How many bytes of options are
being carried by this packet?

Q33) In an IPv4 packet, the value of HLEN is 5, and the value of the total length field is Ox0028.
How many bytes of data are being carried by this packet?

Q34) A packet has arrived with anM bit value of 1 and a fragmentation offset value of O. Is this
the first fragment, the last fragment, Or a middle fragment?

Q35)| A packet has arrived in which the offset value is 100, the value of HLEN is 5, and the
value of the tota1length field is 100. What are the numbers of the first byte and the last byte?

Q36) Explain the UDP and TCP datagram format? what is the difference between TCP and
UDP?

Q37) Explain connection establishment,data transfer and connection release phase in TCP?

Q38) What is the value of the receiver window (rwnd) for host A if the receiver, host B, has a
buffer size of 5000 bytes and 1000 bytes of received and unprocessed data?
Q39) What is the size of the window for host A if the value of rwnd is 3000 bytes and the value
of cwnd is 3500 bytes?

Q40) Explain TCP congestion handling policy?