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UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA PERLIS
School of Computer and Communications Engineering
DPT224 Data Communications and Networking
Tutorial 1
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1. Identify the five components of a data communications system.
2. Name the four basic network topologies, and cite an advantage of each type.
3. What are some of the factors that determine whether a communication system is a LAN
or WAN?
4. For each of the following four networks, discuss the consequences if aconnection fails.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Five devices arranged in a mesh topology
Five devices arranged in a star topology (not counting the hub)
Five devices arranged in a bus topology
Five devices arranged in a ring topology
5. What are headers and trailers, and how do they get added and removed?
6. What is the difference between a port address, a logical address, and a physical
address?
7. In Figure below, computer A sends a message to computer D via LANl, router Rl, and
LAN2. Show the contents of the packets and frames at the network and data link layer
for each hop interface.
8. referring to the same figure, assume that the communication is between a process
running at computer A with port address i and a process running at computer D with
port address j. Show the contents of packets and frames at the network, data link, and
transport layer for each hop.
9. What is the bit rate for each of the following signals?
a.
A signal in which 1 bit lasts 0.001 s
b.
A signal in which 1 bit lasts 2 ms
c.
A signal in which 10 bits last 20 J-ls
10.
A signal travels from point A to point B. At point A, the signal power is 100 W. At
point B, the power is 90 W. What is the attenuation in decibels?
11.
If the bandwidth of the channel is 5 Kbps, how long does it take to send a frame of
100,000 bits out of this device?
12.
A line has a signal-to-noise ratio of 1000 and a bandwidth of 4000 KHz. What is the
maximum data rate supported by this line?
13.
Define FHSS and explain how it achieves bandwidth spreading.
14.
Define DSSS and explain how it achieves bandwidth spreading.
15.
Assume that a voice channel occupies a bandwidth of 4 kHz. We need to multiplex 10
voice channels with guard bands of 500 Hz using FDM. Calculate the required
bandwidth.
16.
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).
17.
Ten sources, six with a bit rate of 200 kbps and four with a bit rate of 400 kbps are to be
combined using multilevel TDM with no synchronizing bits. Answer the fol- lowing
questions about the final stage of the multiplexing:
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?