Reg. No.

MANIPAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Manipal University
FIFTH SEMESTER B.TECH (E & C) DEGREE END SEMESTER EXAMINATION
NOV / DEC 2012
SUBJECT: COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (ECE - 309)
TIME: 3 HOURS

MAX. MARKS: 50

Instructions to candidates
Answer ANY FIVE full questions.
Answer every Full Question in fresh page
Missing data may be suitably assumed.
1A. (i) Explain the ISO/OSI Reference Model
(ii) Expand the following terms: ANSI, ITU
1B. Two stations are connected using 2KM fibre. Rate of transmission is 200Mbps and
frame length is 1000bits. DLL has 3bits for sequence number. Find the time taken to
transmit 1 Megabits of data if probability of frame in error is 0.2 using following
protocol
a). Stop and Wait Protocol b). Go back N & c) Selective Repeat
(5+5)
2A. Sketch congestion Control diagram till 20th RTT for the following sequences if the
maximum window size is 64 segments.
a) Time out is at 4th RTT b) 3-Duplicates at 7th & c) 3-Duplicates at 13th RTT
d) Time out at 16th RTT
2B. Give the comparison with necessary sketches
(i) Packet switching and virtual circuit switching
(ii) Connection oriented and Connection less services
(iii) Copper cables & Optical fibres

(5+5)

3A. Discuss the working of CSMA/CD Algorithm with the help of flow chart. Elaborate
how & why exponential back off Algorithm used?
3B. Give the format of SNMP PDUs and discuss all its PDUs

(5+5)

4A. An IPv4 datagram is received with header (in hex form) as: Ox45 00 00 54 00 03 00 00
20 06 58 50 7C 4E 03 02 B4 OE OF 02. Find the following
a) Can the packet be fragmented?
b) Option fields used by the datagram
c) Is the packet error free?
d) Size of Data
e) Hop count the packet has travelled f) Source & Destination address

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4B. (i) Distinguish between VANETs and MANETs?

(ii) Give few applications of wireless networks

(5+5)

5A. 1000bytes information is to be delivered by a node A to node B which is at 4 hop

distance using packet switching. Every packet uses an overhead of 10bytes. If the
rate of transmission is 1Mbps, plot the curve showing the time taken to deliver the
information, if the information is divided into 2, 4, 8, 10, 20, and 40 respectively
5B. Discuss the different types of packets used in OSPF.

(5+5)

6A. Derive the Erlang C formula for M/M/m system.

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x 1.
6B. (i) A DLL uses bit oriented protocol and CRC with generating polynomial x
What is the transmitted code by the DLL if the data stream is (100011010110001)

(ii) Where and why Beacon, claim token, purge is used

(5+5)

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