CSI374 Tutorial2 Revision questions Week 7 to Week 10
1. An Ethernet MAC sublayer receives 30 bytes of data from the upper
layer. How many bytes of padding must be added to the data?
2. Name the strategy of doubling the delay interval between each
retransmission attempt?
3. Describe CSMA Protocol in simple terms?
4. Given the frame transmission time TFr to be 100ms. What is the
vulnerable time in which collision may occur in Pure ALOHA compared
to slotted ALOHA?
5. A network with CSMA/CD protocol in the MAC layer is running at
5Gbps over a 5km cable with no repeaters. The signal speed in the
cable is 3x106 m/sec. What would be the minimum frame size for this
network?
6. Determine the maximum length of the cable in km, for transmitting
data at a rate of 300 Mbps in an Ethernet LAN with frames of size 5, 000
bits. Assume the signal speed in the cable to be 2x108 km/s?
7. What is the destination MAC address used by Bridge Protocol Data
Units(BPDUs)?
8. Describe the operation of the spanning tree protocol in computer
networks?
9. Describe the latency components?
10. What is the propagation time if the distance between node A and B is
1700km. Assume the propagation speed to be 2.4x10 4 m/s in the
media cable used?
11. Station A needs to send a message consisting of 9 packets to station B
using sliding window (window size 3) and go-back-n ARQ error control
strategy. All packet are ready and immediately available for
transmission. If every 5th packet that A transmits gets lost (but no ACKs
from B ever get lost), then what is the number of packets that A will
transmit for sending the message to B?
12. In flow control, station A uses 64 byte packets to transmit message to
station B using a sliding window protocol. The round trip delay between
A and B is 70 milliseconds and bottleneck bandwidth on the path
CSI374 Tutorial2 Revision questions Week 7 to Week 10
between A and B is 100kbps. Determine the Bandwidth Delay product
(BDP) and determine the optimal window size that A should use?
13. What is the hexadecimal equivalent of the following Ethernet address?
01111110 01110001 01010101 011111000 10101010 11101111
14. What are the functions for RTS-CTS and where are they applied?
15. Describe VLAN and its purpose
16. Identify the IEEE standards for Bluetooth, WiFi and Ethernet
17. Define Bluesnarfing?
18. Describe piconet and scatternet?
19. Define Access point in WLAN?
20. Identify which multiple access technique is used for WiFi standard?
21. Define a runt frame?
22. What is the minimum and maximum size of the payload in ethernet
frame?
23. What is the Start Frame Delimiter (SFD) in ethernet frame?
24. Describe all the error detection techniques and learn how to compute
the errors for CRC and LRC and their performances.
25. Consider the data unit 10111101111000111010010010011101 to be
transmitted by the sender. Determine the following
a)number of blocks after segmenting the message?
b) number of bits per block?
c) The checksum?
26. The message 11001111 at the sender side is to be transmitted using CRC
polynomial x3+x2 +1 to protect it from errors. Determine the following?
a) the bits of the divisor L?
b) the length of the CRC bits to be appended to the message?
c) The CRC bits
d) Message to be transmitted?
