Code No: RR410402 Set No.

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IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
COMPUTER NETWORKS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) Explain in detail ISO-OSI reference model.

(b) Write short notes on interface, service and protocol. [8+8]

2. (a) Draw, and explain about HDLC protocol.

(b) Draw, and explain point-to-point protocol. [8+8]

3. (a) Explain five key Assumptions in Dynamic channel allocation in LANs and
MANs.
(b) Explain the multiple access protocol using which the stations about their trans-
missions as soon as they detect a collision? [8+8]

4. (a) An ATM network uses a token bucket scheme for traffic shaping. A new token
is put into the bucket every 5 µsec. What is the maximum sustainable net
data rate (i.e., excluding header bits)?
(b) A computer on a 6-Mbps network is regulated by a token bucket. The token
bucket is filled at a rate of 1Mbps. It is initially filled to capacity with 8
megabits. How long can the computer transmit at the full 6 Mbps?
(c) A data gram subnet allows routers to drop packets whenever they need to. The
probability of a router discarding a packet is p. Consider the case of a source
host connected to the source router, which is connected to the destination
router, and then to the destination host. If either of the routers discards a
packet, the source host eventually times out and tries again. If the host-router
and router-router lines are counted as hops, what is the mean number of
i. hops a packet makes per transmission?
ii. transmissions a packet makes?
iii. hops required per received packet? [4+6+6]

5. (a) Briefly explain the concepts of Flow Control and Buffering.

(b) Explain in detail Four protocol scenarios for releasing a connection. [8+8]

6. (a) Briefly discuss about Concatenated Virtual Circuits.

(b) Explain firewalls, packet filter and a proxy in detail. [8+8]

7. (a) Briefly discuss TCP connection Management.

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(b) What are blocking calls, primitives and non-blocking primitives? [8+8]

8. (a) What is public key cryptography? With an example, Explain RSA Algorithm.
(b) Explain Diffie-Hellman key exchange Authentication protocol. [8+8]

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Code No: RR410402 Set No. 2
IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
COMPUTER NETWORKS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) Write any four reasons for using layered protocols.

(b) List two ways in which the OSI reference model and the TCP/IP reference
model are the same and list in which they differ.
(c) Which is the principle difference between CO communication and CL commu-
nication. [6+4+6]

2. (a) Compare and contrast SLIP and PPP.

(b) Draw and explain HDLC frame format. [8+8]

3. (a) What is bridge? Explain the operation of a LAN bridge from 802.3 to 802.4.
(b) Explain the operation of transparent bridge. [8+8]

4. (a) Explain about, Routing for Mobile Hosts.

(b) What is Broadcasting? With an example, explain about Reverse path for-
warding. [8+8]

5. (a) Explain Berkeley socket primitives for TCP.

(b) Briefly explain the concept of Addressing in TL. [8+8]

6. (a) Briefly discuss about connection less Internetworking.

(b) Explain firewalls, packet filter and a proxy in detail. [8+8]

7. (a) Give the format of UDP segment and TCP segment? Explain when UDP is
preferred to TCP?
(b) Briefly discuss about TCP timer management. [8+8]

8. (a) What is DNS? Briefly discuss DNS Namespace.

(b) Explain, in detail principal DNS resource record types. [8+8]

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Code No: RR410402 Set No. 3
IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
COMPUTER NETWORKS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) List two advantages and two disadvantages of having international standards
for network, Protocols?
(b) Write short notes on interfaces and services of ISO layers. [8+8]

2. (a) Draw and explain HDLC frame format.

(b) Write different types of LCP packets that are defined in RFC 1661. [8+8]

3. (a) Explain static channel allocation in LANs and MANs.

(b) Compare pure Aloha and slotted aloha in detail. [8+8]

4. (a) With an example, explain Distance Vector Routing algorithm?

(b) Explain about count-to-infinity problem? What is split horizon Hack? [8+8]

5. (a) Briefly explain the concepts of Flow Control and Buffering.

(b) Imagine that a two-way handshake rather than a three-way handshake were
used to set up connections. In other words, the third message was not required.
Are deadlocks now possible? Give an example or show that none exist. [8+8]

6. (a) What is tunneling? Can tunneling be used in datagram subnets? If so, how?
(b) Briefly discuss ICMP. [8+8]

7. (a) If all links in the internet were to provide the reliable delivery service, would
the TCP reliable delivery service be completely redundant? Why or why not?
(b) What are the same of the possible services that a Data link-layer protocol can
offer to the NL? Which of these Data link-layer services have corresponding
services in IP? In TCP? [8+8]

8. (a) What is the role of SMI in network management?

(b) What is a key distribution centre? What is a certificate authority?
(c) In what way does a public key encrypted message digest provide a “better”
digital signature than using public key encrypted message? [5+6+5]

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Code No: RR410402 Set No. 4
IV B.Tech I Semester Supplementary Examinations, February 2007
COMPUTER NETWORKS
( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering, Electronics &
Instrumentation Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering and Electronics &
Telematics)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. (a) Briefly explain about the TCP/IP reference model.

(b) Compare and contrast OSI and TCP/IP models. [8+8]

2. (a) Compare and contrast SLIP and PPP.

(b) Draw and explain HDLC frame format. [8+8]

3. (a) What is collision free protocols? Explain Binary count down protocol.
(b) Explain in detail, Adaptive free walk protocol. [8+8]

4. (a) With an example, explain Hierarchical Routing Algorithm.

(b) Explain about, Routing for Mobile Hosts. [8+8]

5. (a) Explain Berkeley socket primitives for TCP.

(b) Briefly explain the concept of Addressing in TL. [8+8]

6. (a) Draw and Explain the IPV6 Header format.

(b) Briefly discuss ICMP. [8+8]

7. (a) Give the format of UDP segment and TCP segment? Explain when UDP is
preferred to TCP?
(b) What are blocking calls, primitives and non-blocking primitives? [8+8]

8. (a) What is “Quantization noise”? Briefly discuss about MIDI.

(b) Explain any two compression techniques. [8+8]

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