CS 6551 COMPUTER NETWORKS

Unit-I
Fundamentals & link layer services
Part-A

17.What is framing error?

18.What is bit stuffing?
19.Write about SONET frame.

1.What is broadcast and multicast?

20.What is redundancy?

2.What is meant by multiplexing?

21.What is flow control?

3.What is Frequency Division Multiplexing and Time division

multiplexing?

22.What is the sender & receiver scenario of sliding window?

4.What are the features of layering?

23.What is stop and wait scenario of flow control?

5. What are the different interfaces of a protocol?

24.What are the differences between Go-back-n and selective repeat

protocol?

6.What is API?

25.What is a buffer?

7.How sockets are used with TCP?

Part-B

8.Define Bandwidth and latency.

1.Describe about Internet architecture in detail.

9.What is RTT of a network?

2.Explain ISO/OSI MODEL .

10.When jitter will be introduced in a network?

3.Explain framing in detail.

11.What are nodes and links?

4.Describe about Error control in detail.

12.What is framing?

5.Write about reliable flow control.

13.What is character stuffing?

14.Define Internetworking and Intranetworking.
15. Define Networks.
16.What is router and gateway?

Part-A

19.WhatisVirtualCircuitSwitching?
Unit-II

Media access & Internetworking

20.Difference between Connectionless and

Connection Oriented duplex.

1.What is repeater?

21.What is hop by hop flow control?

2.What is Media AccessControl?

22.What is Virtual PrivateNetwork?

3.What is Exponentialbackoff?

23.What is VCI?

4.write down the Ethernet address format.

24. What is hop by hop flow control?

5.What is Runt frame?

25.What is Virtual Private Network?

6.What are the reasons that an Ethernet is so easy to maintain?

26.Draw the sketch of IPV4 packet.

7.What is OFDM?

27.What are TTL and MTU.

8. Define Signal to NoiseRatio.

28.Give the structure of class A,B,C address.

9.What is hidden stationproblem?

29.Define subnetting and supernetting.

10.What is exposed station problem?

30.What is a learning bridge.

11.What is a distribution system?

Part-B

12.What is an access point?

1.Explain about Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)

13.What is active and passive scanning?

2Explain WI-FI(IEEE 802.11)

14.What are the techniques of scanning?

3.Explain Bluetooth architecture.

15. What is Bluetooth?

4.Describe various switching techniques.

16.What is Piconet?

5.Write about bridging.

17.Define handoff?

6.Describe Internet protocol.

18. What are Switching andBridging?

7.Explain about ARP.

8. Explain about CIDR.

15.What is reverse path forwarding?

9.Explain about DHCP.

16.What is rendezvous point?

17.What is a channel in PIM-SSM?
18.How does each RP knows the source in its domain?
Part-A
UNIT-III
Routing

19.Write about multicasting addressing.

20.What is the difference between intradomain and interdomain
protocol?

1.What is the difference between forwarding and routing.

Part-B

2.What is an LSP?
3. What is InteriorGatewayProtocol(IGP)?
4.What is distance vector routing?
5.What is convergence?
6.What is split horizon and split horizon with poison reverse?
7.What is RIP?

1. Explain about RIP along with distance vector routing

2. Explain about OSPF along with Link state routing.
3.Explain about BGP.
4. Explain about IPv6.
5.Explain about DVMRP.
6.Explain about PIM.

8.What is Link state routing?

9.What is reliable flooding?

Part-A

10.Draw the sketch of OSPF header.

UNIT-IV

11.Write the difference between IPV6 and IPV4 addresses.

12.Write the structure of IPV6 address.
13.What is Multicasting?
14.Define flooding and pruning in DVMRP.

Transport layer
1.What are the common properties of a transport layer?
2.Define UDP.

3.What is a port mapper?

4.What is TCP?
5.What are the differences between TCP and UDP?
6.Draw the sketch of UDP and TCP header?
7.What is a Pseudoheader?
8.What are the steps in three way handshaking?
9.What are the mechanisms for triggering the TCP transmission?

Part-B
1. Explain about the operation of TCP with neat sketch on it.
2. Explain about UDP with neat sketch on it.
3. Explain about the three way handshake protocol for connection
establishment in TCP.
4. Explain about the TCP congestion control.
5. Explain about the concept of congestion avoidance in TCP?
6. Explain about the RED algorithm.
7. Explain Adaptive retransmission in detail.
8. Explain TCP state transition diagram.
9. Explain TCP connection termination.
Part-A

10.What is silly window syndrome?

UNIT-V

11.Define Nagles Algorithm.

Application layer

12.What is Karn/Patridge algorithm?

13.What is estimated RTT?
14.What is congestion control?
15.What is RED?
16What is AIMD?
17.What is slow start?
18.What is DEC bit?
19.What is playback time?
20.What is playback point?
21.What is the taxonomy of real time applications?
22.What is quality of service?

1.What is SMTP?
2.What is HTTP?
3.What is DNS?
4.What is SNMP?
5.What is MIME?
6.What is IMAP?
7.Write down the request and response format of HTTP?
8.What is URL?
9.What is Caching?
10.What is SOAP?
11.What is WSDL?

12.What is a Zone?

1.Explain about the EMAIL.

13.What is a name server?

2.Explain about the DNS.

14.What is name resolution?

3.Explain about the SNMP

15.What is B2B?

4.Explain about the HTTP.

16.What is MIB?

5.Explain about the WSDL in web services.

17.write about GET and SET in SNMP?

6.Explain about the SOAP.

Part-B