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SCHOOL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING

Department of Computer Applications and Creative Media
Fall Semester 2016~17

Assignment - I, JULY 2016

Programme : MCA
Course Name : Data Communication and Networking
Course Code: ITA5003

1. A) Suppose a computer sends a packet at the transport layer to another computer

somewhere in the Internet. There is no process with the destination port address
running at the destination computer. What will happen?
B) Suppose a computer sends a packet at the network layer to another computer
somewhere in the Internet. The logical destination address of the packet is corrupted.
What happens to the packet? How can the source computer be informed of the
situation?
2. A) A sine wave is offset 1/6 cycle with respect to time O. What is its phase in degrees
and radians?
B) If a periodic signal is decomposed into five sine waves with frequencies of 100,
300, 500, 700, and 900 Hz, what is its bandwidth? Draw the spectrum, assuming all
components have maximum amplitude of 10 V.
C) Suppose a signal travels through a transmission medium and its power is reduced
to one-half. This means that P2 = 1/2 P1. In this case, how the attenuation (loss of
power) will be calculated.
D) The loss in a cable is usually defined in decibels per kilometer (dB/km). If the
signal at the beginning of a cable with -0.3 dB lkm has a power of 2 mW, what is the
power of the signal at 5 km?
E) The power of a signal is 10 mW and the power of the noise is 1W; what are the
values of SNR and SNRdB?
F) Consider a noiseless channel with a bandwidth of 3000 Hz transmitting a signal
with two signal levels. The maximum bit rate can be calculated as :
3. i) Consider an extremely noisy channel in which the value of the signal-to-noise ratio
is almost zero. In other words, the noise is so strong that the signal is faint. For this
channel the capacity C is calculated as:
ii) We can calculate the theoretical highest bit rate of a regular telephone line. A
telephone line normally has a bandwidth of 3000 Hz (300 to 3300 Hz) assigned for

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data communications. The signal-to-noise ratio is usually 3162. For this channel the
capacity is calculated as:
iii) What are the propagation time and the transmission time for a 2.5-kbyte message
(an e-mail) if the bandwidth of the network is 1 Gbps? Assume that the distance
between the sender and the receiver is 12,000 km and that light travels at 2.4 x 108
mls.
4. i) We need to send 265 kbps over a noiseless channel with a bandwidth of 20 kHz.
How many signal levels do we need?
ii) The bandwidth of a subscriber line is 4 kHz for voice or data. The bandwidth of
this line for data transmission can be up to 56,000 bps using a sophisticated modem to
change the digital signal to analog.
iii) A network with bandwidth of 10 Mbps can pass only an average of 12,000 frames
per minute with each frame carrying an average of 10,000 bits. What is the
throughput of this network?
5. i) Assume that a voice channel occupies a bandwidth of 4 kHz. We need to combine
three voice channels into a link with a bandwidth of 12 kHz, from 20 to 32 kHz. Show
the configuration, using the frequency domain. Assume there are no guard bands.
ii) Five channels, each with a 100-kHz bandwidth, are to be multiplexed together. What
is the minimum bandwidth of the link if there is a need for a guard band of 10 kHz
between the channels to prevent interference?
6. i) We need to use synchronous TDM and combine 20 digital sources, each of 100
Kbps. Each output slot carries 1 bit from each digital source, but one extra bit is added to
each frame for synchronization. Answer the following questions:
a. What is the size of an output frame in bits?
b. What is the output frame rate?
c. What is the duration of an output frame?
d. What is the output data rate?
e. What is the efficiency of the system (ratio of useful bits to the total bits)?
ii) Four channels, two with a bit rate of 200 kbps and two with a bit rate of 150 kbps, are
to be multiplexed using multiple-slot TDM with no synchronization bits. Answer the
following questions:
a. What is the size of a frame in bits?
b. What is the frame rate?
c. What is the duration of a frame?
d. What is the data rate?
iii) Show the contents of the five output frames for a synchronous TDM multiplexer that
combines four sources sending the following characters. Note that the characters are sent
in the same order that they are typed. The third source is silent.
a. Source 1 message: HELLO
b. Source 2 message: HI
c. Source 3 message:
d. Source 4 message: BYE

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7. i) The network has switches that allow traffic from sources to destinations. A source or
destination can be a computer, packet switch, bridge, or any other device that connects other
networks.

ii) Figure shows a switch (router) in a datagram network.

Find the output port for packets with the following destination addresses:
a. Packet 1: 7176 b. Packet 2: 1233
c. Packet 3: 8766 d. Packet 4: 9144

iii) Figure shows a switch in a virtual-circuit network.

Find the output port and the output VCI for packets with the following input port and input VCI
addresses:
a. Packet 1: 3, 78 b. Packet 2: 2, 92
c. Packet 3: 4, 56 d. Packet 4: 2, 71