Computer Networks

Background
2 Marks
1. List the uses of Computer Networks.
2. Mention some of the design issues for the Layers.
3. List the difference between Connection-Oriented and Connectionless
Services.
4. List the six service primitives that provide a simple connection-oriented
service.
5. What is client server model?
6. What do you mean by peer to peer systems?
7. What is Network?
8. Brief out the Criteria’s that the network must be able to meet.
9. What are the types of connection?
10. List the layers of TCP/IP protocol.
11. List the difference between LAN and MAN.
12. List the six different types of service.
13. What is the task of data link layer?
14. List some Application layer Protocols.
15. What is ARPANET?
16. What is DSL Modem?
17. What is Internetworking?

5 Marks
1. Explain TCP/IP Reference Model.
2. Explain any one example networks in brief.
3. Explain in brief how Service primitives works.
4. Differentiate between OSI and TCP/IP Protocol.
5. Brief out LAN and WAN.
6. Explain advantage and disadvantage of all topologies.
7. Explain in brief Wireless LANs.
8. Differentiate between Business Applications and Home Applications.
10 Marks
1. Explain OSI Reference Model.
2. Write a note on LAN, WAN and MAN.
3. Explain the applications of computer networks.
4. With a neat diagram explain topologies.
5. Explain any two examples of networks.
6. Explain in brief RFID and Sensor Networks.
7. Explain in brief the Social Issues.
 The Physical Layer

2 Marks
1. List the difference between Guided and Unguided Transmission.
2. What do you mean by Geo-Stationary Satellites?
3. Differentiate between Polling and Multiplexing.
4. What do you mean by radio transmission?
5. List the various Satellites.
6. What do you mean by Twisted Pairs? List the types.
7. What is Reflection?
8. What is Refraction?
9. What do you mean by Infrared Transmission?
10. What are Transponders?
11. What is Van Allen belt? List their types.
12. What is Multiplexing?
13. What do you mean by Satellites?
14. What is switching?
15. What is Light Transmission?
16. What is ISDN Services? List their types.
17. List the different parts of Fiber Cables.

5 Marks
1. Explain ISDN Services with a diagram.
2. Write a brief note on ISDN Interfaces.
3. Explain in brief Electromagnetic Spectrum.
4. Differentiate between MEO and LEO.
5. Explain FDM and TDM in brief.
6. Differentiate Between Circuit and Packet Switching.
7. Explain Polling and Concentration with neat diagrams.
8. What are the Principles of ISDN.

10 Marks
1. What is Multiplexing? Explain types of Multiplexing.
2. With a neat diagram explain types of Switching.
3. Explain Wireless Transmission.
4. Explain Guided Transmission Media.
5. Write a note on ISDN.
6. Explain Communication Satellites.
7. Explain Fiber Optics and Fiber Cables in brief.
 The Data Link Layer
2 Marks
1. What are the functions of data link layer?
2. Name the services provided by the data link layer to the network layer.
3. What is framing?
4. What do you mean by unacknowledged connectionless service?
5. Explain bit stuffing with example?
6. What do you mean by error control?
7. What are the types of errors?
8. What do you mean by flow control?
9. What is feedback based flow control and rate based flow control?
10. Explain parity check with example.
11. What is frame? With the neat diagram show its structure.
12.What do you mean by acknowledged connection-oriented service?
13.What is piggybacking?
14.What is Flag byte?
5 Marks
1. Explain utopian simplex protocol.
2. Explain piggybacking.
3. Explain simplex stop-and-wait protocol.
4. Explain the working of sliding window protocols with neat diagram.
5. Give a brief description of the cyclic redundancy check in error
detection.
6. Explain checksum with example.
7. Explain the concept of byte stuffing with example.
8. Explain the services provided by data link layer to network layer.
9. Explain Byte count with example and show how error can occur.
10 Marks
1. Explain error detecting codes with examples.
2. Explain a protocol using Go-Back-N with neat diagram.
3. Explain a protocol using selective repeat with neat diagram.
4. What is framing? Explain its four methods.
5. Compare and contrast error control and flow control.
 The Medium Access Sub Layer

2 Marks

1. What is the functions of medium access control sub layer?

2. What do you mean by broadcast channels?
3. What is token passing?
4. What is Bit-Map protocol?
5. Briefly describe binary countdown.
6. List out the assumptions made in dynamic channel allocation.
7. What is carrier sense?
8. What is the channel allocation problem in MAC?
9. List out multiple access protocols.
10.What do you mean by observable collisions?
11.What is the basic idea of an ALOHA system?
12. What is non-persistent CSMA?
13.What is 1-persistent CSMA?
14.What is p-persistent CSMA?

5 Marks

15.Write a note on persistent and non-persistent CSMA.

16.Explain CSMA with collision detection.
17.Explain limited-contention protocols.
18.Explain adaptive tree walk protocol.
19.Explain pure ALOHA.
20.Explain assumptions for dynamic channel allocation.
21.Explain bit map protocol with the neat diagram.
22. Write a short note on token passing with the neat diagram.
23.Write a short note on binary countdown with the neat diagram.

10 Marks

24.Write a note on ALOHA.

25.Discuss the channel allocation problem.
26.Compare and contrast wireless LAN protocols.
27.Write a note on collision-free protocols.
28.Write a note on CSMA.
 The Network Layer
2 Marks
1. List out the network layer design issues.
2. Name any two routing algorithm.
3. What is congestion?
4. List the solution approach to congestion control.
5. What do you mean by internetworking?
6. What is a datagram?
7. What is a virtual circuit?
8. List the approaches used for congestion control.
9. What is traffic aware routing?
10.What is traffic throttling?

5 Marks
1. Explain Store and forward packet switching.
2. Differentiate between virtual circuit and datagram networks.
3. Explain shortest path algorithm.
4. What is flooding?
5. Explain hierarchical routing.
6. Explain multicast routing.
7. What is traffic aware routing?
8. What is admission control?
9. Explain tunnelling.
10.Draw a neat diagram of the IPV4 header.

10 Marks
1. List and explain the network layer design issues.
2. List and explain any two routing algorithm.
3. How is Congestion controlled?
4. List and explain the principle for the network layer in the internet.
5. Explain flooding.
6. Explain tunnelling with a neat diagram.
7. Explain traffic throttling?
8. What do you mean by traffic aware routing?
9. Explain load shedding.