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Chapter 1: Introduction

1. What is data Communication? Explain its fundamental characteristics.

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Explain the components of data communication. Write a brief note on Data representation. Explain simplex, half-duplex, full-duplex modes with a neat diagram. Define Network. Explain the network criteria. Write short notes on point-to-point and multipoint connection. Explain in detail different types of topology. 8. If there are 10 computers, then find the number of cables required for mesh, bus, star and ring topologies 9. Write short notes on LAN, WAN, MAN. 10. Briefly explain the concept of Internetwork. 11. Write short notes on Internet. 12. Define protocol. Explain the key elements of protocol. 13. Explain the two types of data communication standards. 14. With a neat block diagram explain OSI reference model. 15. Explain peer-to-peer processes. 16. Explain exchange of data using OSI model. 17. With a neat diagram explain the responsibilities of a. physical layer b. data link layer c. network layer d. transport layer e. presentation layer f. session layer g. Application layer. 18. With a neat diagram illustrate node to node delivery by data link layer. 19. Explain the TCP/IP protocol suite. 20. Write short notes on different layers of TCP/IP. 21. Difference between TCP/IP and OSI model.

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Chapter 2 : Digital Signal and Digital Transmission

1. Define the term data, signal, analog data, analog signal, digital data, and digital signal. 2. With a neat diagram explain the causes of transmission impairment. 3. What are the factors that data rate depends on. 4. Write Short notes on Performance, Throughput, and Delay. 5. Define Line Coding. Explain its characteristics. 6. What is synchronization? Explain the Lack of Synchronization 7. Write short notes on Multilevel Schemes and multiline transmission. 8. Define Block coding Explain its concepts. 9. Define Scrambling. Explain B8ZS and HDB3 scrambling techniques. 10. With a neat diagram explain Pulse code modulation in detail. 11. Deduce an equation for a maximum data rate of a channel. 12. With a Neat diagram explain in detail Delta modulation. 13. Write a Short notes on different types of transmission modes 14. If the input data streams are 10110001, 101010101, 1100111000, 100010001. Draw the waveforms using NRZ-L, NRZ-I, Biphase Manchester, Differential Manchester and AMI Techniques. 15. Draw the waveform for 2B1Q scheme for the following input streams a. 1111111111111111 b. 0000000000000000 c. 0011001100110011 d. 0101010101010101 16. Draw the waveform for MLT-3 Schemes for the following data inputs a. 11111111

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b. 00011000 c. 00000000 d. 01010101

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17. We want to transmit 500 characters with each character encoded as 8-bits a. Find the number of transmitted bits for synchronous transmission b. Find the number of transmitted bits for asynchronous transmission
c. Find the redundancy percent in each case.

18. We have sampled a low pass signal with a bandwidth of 300khzusing 1024 levels of quantization
a. Calculate the bit rate of the digitized signal. b. Calculate the SNRdB for this signal.

c. Calculate the PCM bandwidth of this signal. 19. A noiseless 2 kHz channel transmits a digital signal represented by 4 discrete levels. Find the max. Data rate. 20. A noiseless 4 kHz channel transmits digital signal whose amplitude is represented by 4 bits. Find the maximum bit rate. 21. A 4000Hz channel has a signal-to-noise ratio of 20db. Find the maximum data rate. 22. Calculate the theoretical highest bit rate of a regular telephone line. A telephone line normally has a bandwidth of 3000Hz. The SNR is 3162.
23. We have a channel with a 1 MHz bandwidth. The SNR for this channel is 63, what is the

appropriate bit rate and signal rate.

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Chapter 3: Analog transmission

1. With a neat diagram explain Digital-to-analog conversion. Explain the Aspects of Digital-to-Analog Conversion. 2. Write a short notes on Amplitude shift keying, Frequency shift keying, Phase shift keying. 3. Briefly describe the concept of constellation diagram. Explain different types of constellation Diagram.
4. Write Short notes on Amplitude modulation, Frequency modulation and phase

modulation.
5. Explain the concept of multiplexing with a neat diagram.

6. Explain frequency division multiplexing with a neat diagram. 7. Explain multiplexing and demultiplexing process in frequency division multiplexing. 8. Write short notes on wavelength division multiplexing and synchronous Time division multiplexing. 9. Define interleaving. With a neat diagram and explain the concept of interleaving. 10. Write short notes on multilevel multiplexing, multiple-slot multiplexing and pulse stuffing. 11. Write short notes on Digital signal service, T-line and T-line for analog transmission. 12. With a neat diagram explain statistical Time-Division multiplexing. 13. Explain the concept of Spread spectrum and mention its two principles. 14. Write a short notes on frequency hopping spread spectrum and direct sequence spread spectrum. 15. Show the contents of the five output frames for a synchronous TDM multiplexer that contain four sources sending the following characters. Note that the characters are sent in the same order that they typed. The third source is silent. a. Source 1 message : HI b. Source 2 message : STUDENTS

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c. Source 3 message : d. Source 4 message : HELLO

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16. What is the minimum number of bits in PN sequence if we use FHSS with a channel

bandwidth of B=5 kHz and Bss=120 kHz? 17. Two channels, one with a bit rate of 150kbps and another with a bit rate of 140 kbps, are to be multiplexed using pulse stuffing TDM with no synchronization bits. Answer the following a. What is the size of a frame bits? b. What is the frame rate? c. What is the duration of a frame? d. What is the data rate? 18. Define Bit rate and Baud rate. Explain the relation between them. 19. A constellation diagram consists of eight equally spaced points on a circle. If the bit rate is 4800 bps, what is the baud rate? 20. Compute the baud rate for a 72,000-bps 64-QAM signal. 21. Find the minimum bandwidth for an FSK signal transmitting at 2000 bps. Transmission is in half-duplex mode, and the carriers are separated by 3000 Hz. 22. Given a bandwidth of 10,000 Hz (1000 to 11,000 Hz), draw the full-duplex ASK diagram of the system. Find the carriers and the bandwidths in each direction. Assume there is no gap between the bands in the two directions.

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Chapter 4: Transmission Media, Error Detection and Correction

1. Explain the term transmission media with a neat diagram. 2. With a neat diagram explain the Different types of Guided media. 3. With a neat diagram explain the Different types of unguided media. 4. Explain multimode-step index, multimode-graded index and single mode. 5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of optical fiber? 6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of coaxial cable? 7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of unshielded twisted pair? 8. Define the term Error. With a neat diagram Explain Different types of errors. 9. What is error detection? With a neat diagram explain process of error detection in Block coding.
10. Define Error correction. With a neat diagram explain Structure of encoder and

decoder in error correction.

11. Explain geometric concept for finding dmin in error correction.

12. With a neat diagram explain the concept of simple parity-check code. 13. With a neat diagram explain the concept of Hamming code. 14. What is the need of error correction and error detection. 15. Define the term CRC. Illustrate with an example the encoding and decoding process of CRC. 16. With a neat diagram explain the concept of internet checksum. 17. What is the hamming distance for each of the following codewords: a. d (10000, 01000) b. d (10101, 10010) c. d (1111, 1111) d. d (0000, 0000)

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18. Given the data word 1010011010 and divisor 10111, a. Show the generation of the codeword at the sender site (use binary division). b. Show the checking of the codeword at the receiver site (assume no error).

19. Assume even parity, find the parity bit for each of the following data units a. 1001011 b. 0001100 c. 1000000 d. 1110111
20. Given g(x) =x3+x2+1. Find the polynomial word for the information bits 110110.