School of Computing

First CIA Test – July/August 2019

Course Code: BCSCCS504R03 / BITCIT504R03 / BICCIC504R03
Course Name: Computer Networks
Duration: 90 minutes Max Marks: 50

Answer Key

Part- A

1. R* d/s = 2000000*(20000000/2.5*108) = 160,000 bits

2. circuit-switched network can guarantee a certain amount of end-to-end bandwidth for the
duration of a call. Most packet-switched networks today (including the Internet) cannot make
any end-to-end guarantees for bandwidth.

3. 100 Kbps

4. (10*106) * 60= 600,000,000 bits

5. The average rate at which bits arrive at the queue is La bits/sec. Assume that the queue is very
big, so that it can hold essentially an infinite number of bits. The ratio La/R, called the traffic
intensity, often plays an important role in estimating the extent of the queuing delay.

6. The overlay network in a P2P file sharing system consists of the nodes participating in the file
sharing system and the logical links between the nodes. There is a logical link (an “edge” in
graph theory terms) from node A to node B if there is a semi-permanent TCP connection
between A and B. An overlay network does not include routers.

7. First, HTTP is mainly a pull protocol and SMTP is primarily a push protocol. A second
difference, which we alluded to earlier, is that SMTP requires each message, including the body
of each message, to be in 7-bit ASCII format. If the message contains characters that are not 7-
bit ASCII or contain binary data then the message has to be encoded into 7-bit ASCII. HTTP
data does not impose this restriction.

8. Segmentation and Reassembly, Sequence Numbering, Reliable data transfer, Congestion

control, Flow control, and Error control

9. Source port number y and destination port number x.

10. An application developer may not want its application to use TCP’s congestion control, which
can throttle the application’s sending rate at times of congestion. Often, designers of IP telephony
and IP videoconference applications choose to run their applications over UDP because they want to
avoid TCP’s congestion control. Also, some applications do not need the reliable data transfer
provided by TCP.
 Part –B

11. Discussion of 7 layer ISO/OSI Reference Model with end to end architecture diagram

(8 Mark)

Discussion of any one protocol suit like TCP/IP v4, TCP/IP v6 (2 Mark)

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