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ANNA UNIVERSITY (UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS)
B.E (Full Time) END SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – APR / MAY 2021
Electronics and Communication Engineering
VISemester
EC7602&Communication Networks
(Regulation 2015)
Time:3Hours AnswerALLQuestions Max. Marks100
PART- A (10 x 2 = 20Marks)
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1. The MODEM and active hub device belongs to which OSI layer. Justify? 2
2. Consider a digital communication system that relates the Nyquist and shannon 2
formulation. The spectrum of the channel is between Y MHz and (Y+5) MHz and
SNR is 24dB. Determine the maximum channel capacity of the system and find
the number of discrete voltage levels.
3. Define piggybacking and its benefits 2
4. Write down the sender site algorithm for the simplest protocol, what kind of 2
modification has to be done at the receiver site for this protocol.
5. Define source quench. 2
6. Why IPv6 is preferred than IPv4? 2
7. Consider the bandwidth as 50 Kbps, one way transit time is 240 msec and the 2
segment size is 1000 bit. Consider the event of a segment transmission and the
corresponding ACK reception. Find the maximum number of segments that can
be outstanding during this duration.
8. Alice meets Bob and says "Rjjy rj ts ymj xfggfym Bj bnqq inxhzxx ymj uqfs". If she 2
is using Caesar cipher and key value is 21, What does she wants to convey?
9. Why do we employ combination switching schemes such as TST? 2
10. Draw a 5x5 crossbar switch and mention its merits compared to time switch. 2
PART- B (5 x 13 = 65Marks)
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11. a)(i)Explain SONET layered architecture and map the layer with OSI diagram. 7
(ii) Consider sender (S) transmitting a file of size 106 bits to a destination machine 6
(D) over a network of two routers (R1 and R2) and three communication links (L1,
L2 and L3). L1 connects S to R1;L2 connects R1 to R2; and L3 connects R2 to D.
Let each link be of length 200km. Assume the signal travel over each link at a
speed of 109 meters per second. Assume that the link bandwidth on each link is
1Gbps. Let the file be broken down into 1000 packets each of size 1000 bits.
Calculate the total sum of transmission and propagation delays in transmitting the
file from S to D?
OR
b)(i) Discuss with a neat diagram the RS232 physical layer interface and Design 7
the wiring connection between MODEM and computer device using DB9 pin
connector for data transmission.
(ii) There are 100 nodes in a communication network. You are required to 6
minimize the number of links in the network so as to reduce the installation cost.
Which topology and transmission media you will deploy. Justify your choices.
12. a)Explain any one bit oriented protocol used to transmit frames in packet switched 13
network and its frame structure in [Link] setup a Asynchronous balanced
mode connection between two Stations and explain the information transfer
between them under selective repeat protocol.
OR
b)Discuss in detail IEEE 802.11 frame format and MAC protocol used in it. 13
13. a) Explain the concept of Link state routing protocol, Using the underlying 13
principles, compute the routing table for node 2.
OR
b) Explain the concept of leaky bucket algorithm, using the principle determine 13
how long will it take to clear the traffic with a leaky bucket traffic shaper having a
leak rate of 6pkt per sec and bucket size 15pkts. How many packets does it need
to drop? The arrival rate of packet is shown below
Start time End time Arrival rate
(sec) (sec) (pkts per sec)
0 3 10
3 5 15
5 7 18
7 9 14
9 12 5
14. a) (i) Explain three way handshake based connection established in TCP and 9
compare TCP and UDP.
(ii) Sender transmits a 3600 byte datagram into a link that has an MTU of 900 4
bytes. Suppose a original datagram is stamped with an identification number o
last 4 digit of your registration number. How many fragments are generated?
Describe their full characteristics of TCP frame structure with diagram by using
above parameters. Point out the possible places of reassembly after
fragmentation.
OR
b) (i) With an example, discuss how File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is used in file 9
transfer.
(ii)The following message is received by a person "yzektacgthatemnniost". If the 4
message is encrypted by using the simple Column Transposition method with
multiple rounds, with the key as 31452. Find the original plaintext.
15. a) (i) With a neat diagram, explain digital cross connect system. 10
(ii) Determine the implementation complexity of 1024 channel TST switch with 16 3
TDM links, 64 channels and the time slot of space switch is 25.
OR
b) (i) Explain the single stage space switching and list its drawbacks. Draw 3- 10
stage space division switch and compute the total number of cross points.
(ii) A 3 stage switching structure accommodate 128 input and 128 output. For first 3
16 stage and 16 last stage, find the number of cross points for non-blocking.
PART- C (1 x 15 = 15 Marks)
(Q. No 16 is Compulsory)
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16. (i) A signal with bandwidth 4 kHz is to be transmitted a distance of 200km over a 5
channel that has an attenuation of 2dB/km. At the receiver amplifier an SNR of
30dB is needed for proper reception. Calculate the power in watts that needs to
be transmitted for two cases :
Case 1: No repeaters are employed
Case 2: 20 repeaters are employed and each repeater has a gain of 20dB
(ii) A newly started educational institution got an IP address range [Link]/23 7
from Internet Service Provider (ISP). The college plans to distribute these address
to setup 6 departments each needs 64 addresses. Design the sub-blocks and find
out how many addresses are still available after these allocations. Find the range
of IP address.
(iii) Considertwo computers have IP addresses [Link] and [Link] 3
respectively and they both use the same netmask. Which of the values of subnet
mask given below should not be used if twocomputers should belong to the same
network?
(a) [Link] (b) [Link] (c) [Link] (d)[Link]