2013 May IT
2013 May IT
SECTION – I
Q - 1 (a) Explain the hidden station and exposed station problem in wireless LAN. [05]
(b) Define the following term: [02]
1) SONET 2) Virtual Path
Q - 2 (a) Explain the connection-oriented service of packet switching at network layer. [06]
(b) Draw and explain the architecture of IEEE 802.11. [04]
(c) Explain the PPP protocol in Point-to-Point WAN. [04]
OR
Q - 2 (a) List and explain the different network layer issues. [06]
(b) Explain the network layer services provided at each router in detail. [04]
(c) Explain the advantages of frame relay over X.25 protocol in switched WAN. [04]
Q - 3 (a) Justify the following statements with reason: [06]
1) The request and reply message can be used to bind a physical address to an IP
address in a SVC situation.
2) The inverse request and inverse reply message can be used to build the server’s
mapping table.
(b) Consider the following information: [04]
Original timestamp: 50 Receive timestamp:60
Transmit timestamp:61 Return timestamp:67
What is the round-trip time? What is the difference between sender clock and receiver
clock?
(c) What is the need of proxy ARP? How it works? [04]
OR
Q - 3 (a) Draw and explain in detail the different types of IGMP message format. [06]
(b) Calculate the Checksum in ICMP for following information: [04]
8 0 0
1 9
TEST
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SECTION – II
Q - 4 (a) Attempt Following. [07]
1) What is the network address if one of the addresses is 167.199.170.82/27?
2) What is the maximum size of IP header?
3) Using 7-bit sequence numbers, what is the maximum size of sender and receiver
Windows for Go-back-N?
4) Show the original (unabbreviated) form of following IPv6 address:
0 : 0 : FFFF : :
5) What is pulling in transport layer?
6) Define socket address.
7) What is loop back address?
Q - 5 (a) Draw and explain connection oriented service of transport layer. [06]
(b) Differentiate following: [04]
1) Classful and Classless IPv4 addressing
2) TCP and UDP
(c) What are the different types of delivery for IP packet? Explain each one. A host with [04]
IP address 137.23.56.23/16 sends a packet to a host with IP address 137.23.67.9/16.
Which type of delivery?
OR
Q - 5 (a) An organization is granted the block 130.34.12.64/26. The organization needs to have [06]
four sub networks. What are the subnet addresses and the range of addresses for each
subnet?
(b) Explain stop and wait protocol of transport layer. [04]
(c) Draw an IP header format. [04]
Q - 6 (a) List out the transition strategies of IPv4 to IPv6 and explain each one in detail. [06]
(b) What is fragmentation in IPv4? List out the fields related to fragmentation? Explain [04]
any one in brief.
(c) Explain different types of links in OSPF. [04]
OR
Q - 6 (a) List out TCP timers and explain each one in detail. [06]
(b) Figure shown on next page is an imaginary part of the Internet. Show the routing [04]
tables for router R1. Router R1 receives a packet with destination address
192.16.7.14. Show how the packet is forwarded.
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