Time-: 25min

BITS PILANI-HYDERABAD CAMPUS 2nd -Semester

ECE 394: Communication Networks
Comprehensive Quiz
Max Mark-:15

ID. NO.

B
Date: 01-05-2014

Name:

Instruction:- Each carry one mark. Read the questions carefully, write the most appropriate answer
(A,B,C,D in capital) clearly in the box provided with ink. Overwriting or ambiguity will not be
considered for recheck.

1. Under a light load, ______LAN has a smaller delay :

[A] Token Ring

[B] Ethernet

[C] FDDI

[D] WLAN

2. Multiple access scheme for WLAN is ______

[A] CSMA

[B] CSMA-CD

[C] CSMA-CA [D] 1-Persistant CSMA

3. If ALOHA protocol is used to share a 56 kbps satellite channel with a frame length of 1000 bits,
the maximum throughput is . frames/second
[A] 10

[B]18

[C]20

[D]36

4. SONET defines _______ layers.

[A] two

[B] three

[C] four

[D] FIVE

5. MP3 can compress audio signals of different frequencies and produce ______ data rate.
[ A] 96 Kbps

[B] 128 Kbps

[C] 160 Kbps

D. All of these

6. Identify the class of the following IPv4 address: 191.1.2.3.

[A] A

Instructors Use

[B] B

[C] C

[D] none of these

Recheck request:

B
7. The applied persistence of transmitting nodes is changed from 1/2 to 1/11. Then the medium
access time increases, which results in _______collision and loss.
[A] Less
[B] More
[C] No relation
[D] None
8. As the pause time increases for the mobile nodes in wireless LAN, what happens to user level
throughput
[A] No change in throughput
[B] Throughput will decrease
[C] Throughput will increase
[D] None
9. Set A has application data distribution constant, application data size (bytes) 6800 and RTS
threshold equal to 2347. Set B has application data distribution constant, Application data size
(bytes) 1472 and RTS threshold equal to 2347. Which set has low throughput.
[A] Set A
[B] Set B
[C] Both have same throughput
[D] None
10. ______IEEE standard devices operate in the license free 5.X GHz frequency band and can
achieve a maximum throughput of 54 M bit/sec by using orthogonal frequency division
multiplexing (OFDM) modulation techniques to increase throughput.
[A] 802.11a
[B] 802.11b
[C] 802.11g
[D] None
11. Collisions in hubs are ______than switches and Ethernet delay for 100 Mbps link is _______as
compared to 10 Mbps link.
[A] Less, More [B] More, Small [C] Less, Small
[D] More, More
12. In routing, RIP packets are considered as overhead, as the number of RIP packets increases, the
overhead increases. As the periodic time is increased what happens to the overhead (%) of the
network.
[A] Increases
[B] Decreases
[C] No change
[D] None
13. As the inter arrival time is decreasing exponentially traffic received will _______.
[A] Increase
[B] Decrease [C] No change [D] Can not be predictable
14. Which http status response is used for permanent redirection
[A]302

[B]201

[C] 401

[D]301

15. In the wireshark application which filter is used for analyzing DHCP traffic and how long is a
mac address?
[A] dhcp, 32 bits
[B] tcp, 18 bits
[C] bootp, 48 bits
[D]dhcp, 24 bits