Question Paper

Exam Date & Time: 07-Oct-2020 (09:30 AM - 01:00 PM)

BMS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Autonomous Institute Affiliated to VTU, Supplementary Semester End Examination October 2020
Computer Communication Networks [16EC6DCCCN]
Marks: 100 Duration: 210 mins.

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGG, VI SEM

1) Discuss the design issues of layers (6)

a)
b) Distinguish Wired and Wireless transmission media, justify the significance of twisting in twisted pair (8)
cable.
c) For n Devices in network, estimate the number of cable links required for a mesh, ring, bus and star (6)
topology? Point out the advantages of each of this topology
2) (10)

a)

b) A path in a digital circuit-switched network has a data rate of 1 Mbps. The exchange of 1000 bits is (6)
required for the setup and teardown phases. The distance between two parties is 5000 km. answer
the following questions if the propagation speed is 2 X 108 m/s:
i) What is the total delay if 1000 bits of data are exchanged during the
data transfer phase?
ii) What is the total delay if 100,000 bits of data are exchanged during
the data transfer phase?
iii) What is the total delay if 1,000,000 bits of data are exchanged during
the data transfer phase?
c) A Three stage space division switch with N= 120 has 10 cross bars in the first and third stages and (4)
4 crossbars in the middle stage. Calculate the total number of cross points. Find the possible

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 number of cross points if a single crossbar (120 X 120) is used.
3) Frames of 1000bits are sent over a 1- Mbps channel using a geostationary satellite whose (10)
propagation time from earth is 270msec. Acknowledgements are always piggybacked onto data
a) frames. The headers are very short. Three bit sequence numbers are used.
What is the maximum achievable channel utilization for
i) Stop and wait protocol
ii) Goback N protocol
iii) Selective repeat protocol
b) Describe the control field in HDLC frame. (10)
[OR] Design a Go-back-N ARQ protocol with piggy backing, explain advantages of piggy backing. (10)
4)
a)
b) A bit stream 010111001 is transmitted using Cyclic Redundancy Check method, the generator (10)
polynomial is x3+x2+1. Find the actual bit stream transmitted. Decode the bit stream received.
5) In the figure shown station A is transmitting to station B, station C has some data to send to station (4)
D; Does station C transmit the data, justify your answer with appropriate description
a)

b) A pure ALOHA network transmits 200 bits frames on a shared channel of 200kbps. What is the (6)
throughput if the system produces
i. 1000 frames per second
ii. 500 frames per second
iii. 250 frames per second
c) With appropriate analysis discuss why CSMA/CD is not suitable for wireless network. Compare the (10)
vulnerable time in CSMA and CSMA/CD.
[OR] Explain the frame format for IEEE 802.3 (10)
6)
a)
b) For a network using CDMA Compute W2 and W4 if W1= [-1], compare it with the computation if (10)
W1= [+1].
7) What is the basis for membership in VLAN (8)

a)
b) Outline the advantages of VLAN. (6)
c) Explain the advantages of frame relay. (6)

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