DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
(Formerly Delhi College of Engineering)
Shahabad Daulatpur, Bawana Road, Delhi-110042
Department of CSE
Assignment No. 1
Subject: Computer Networks Subject Code: CS208
Class: [Link]-IV Semester/Elective
Last Date for Submission: February 25, 2026
Q1. Differentiate between the following:
(a.) Subnetting vs Supernetting (CO2)
(b) FDM vs TDM (CO1)
(c) Switch vs Router (CO1)
(d) Circuit switching vs Packet switching (CO1)
(e) Baseband vs Broadband Transmission (CO1)
(f) BOOTP vs DHCP (CO2)
(g) Routing vs Forwarding (CO1)
(h) CRC vs Checksum (CO2)
(i) ARP vs RARP (CO2)
(j) Synchronous vs Asynchronous Transmission (CO1)
(k) Stop and Wait vs Sliding Window(CO2)
(l) Bit rate vs Baud rate vs Bit Interval (CO1)
Q2. An organization has multiple departments located on different floors of a building. Each
department has its own local network and requires secure inter-department communication,
efficient data forwarding, scalability, and Internet access (CO1)
(a.) Suggest a suitable network topology or combination of topologies for this scenario.
(b.) Identify the network devices required and briefly justify their roles.
Q3. What is the length of a bit in a channel with a propagation speed of (2 \times 10^8) m/s if
the channel bandwidth is: (CO1)
(a) 2 Mbps (b) 20 Mbps (c) 300 Mbps
Q4. Compare the OSI model and TCP/IP model with respect to the number of layers and
functionality. (CO1)
Q5. Perform Hamming Code error detection and correction for the following data: (CO2)
Data bits = 101101
(a.) Determine the number of redundant bits required
(b.) Construct the Hamming code
(c.) If the received codeword is 101001101, identify the error position and correct it
Q6. A college campus has multiple buildings: academic blocks, library, hostels, and
administrative offices. (CO1)
(a.) What topology or combination of topologies would you recommend?
(b.) Justify your choice based on scalability and fault tolerance
Q7. A communication channel has a bandwidth of 1 MHz and a signal-to-noise ratio of 30
dB.
(a.) Calculate the maximum data rate using Shannon’s capacity formula
(b.) Compare this result with the data rate obtained using Nyquist’s formula assuming a
noiseless channel (Assume binary signalling) (CO1)
Q8. The address of a Class B host is to be split into subnets with a 6-bit subnet number.
What is the maximum number of subnets and the maximum number of hosts in each subnet?
(CO2)
Q9. A message of 5 MB is to be transmitted over a network. Each packet has a header of 40
bytes and payload of 1000 bytes. The link data rate is 10 Mbps.
Find:
(a.) Number of packets
(b.) Total transmission time (ignore propagation and queuing delay) (CO2)
Q10. Host A is sending data to Host B over a full-duplex link using the sliding window
protocol. Sender and receiver window sizes are 5 packets each.
Data packet size = 1000 bytes, transmission time = 50 μs, propagation delay = 200 μs.
What is the maximum achievable throughput? (CO2)
Q11. A digital signal is transmitted using Manchester encoding at a data rate of 10 Mbps.
(a.) Calculate the signal rate (baud rate)
(b.) Estimate the minimum bandwidth required (CO1)
Q12. Host X ([Link]) is connected through two routers R1 and R2 to Host Y
([Link]). Given router IPs and netmask [Link], determine how many distinct
subnets are guaranteed to already exist in the network. (CO2)
Q13. Given the following network graph, apply Dijkstra’s algorithm to find the shortest path
from node A to all other nodes (CO1)
Edge Cost
A–B 6
A–D 1
B–D 2
B–C 5
D–C 1
C–E 3
D–E 7
Q14. In a Go-Back-N protocol, the sender window size is 7 and the sequence number field is
3 bits.(CO2)
(a) Find the maximum window size allowed
(b) Check whether the given window size is valid
Q15. A router receives the following link-state information. Construct the shortest path tree
rooted at A. (CO1)
Link Cost
A–B 4
A–C 2
B–C 1
B–D 5
C–D 8
Q16. Perform CRC error detection for the following: (CO2)
Data = 110101
Divisor = 1011
Q17. In a Slotted ALOHA network, 200 nodes are contending for the channel. If each node
transmits with probability p = 0.01, calculate the probability of:
(a) Successful transmission
(b) Collision
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