SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS
ELEC4405
ASSIGNMENT 1

1. a) Describe the step-by-step procedure that is involved from beginning until its reach the
destination for :
i. e-mail message
ii. PSTN
iii. Satellite

b) Are the procedures in above-mentioned question, connection-oriented or

connectionless? Why?

c) Describe how services by a music program delivered over broadcast radio be

provided and enhanced through a communications network.

2. a) Which OSI layer is responsible for the following?

i. Determining the best path to route packets.

ii. Providing end-to-end communications with reliable service.

iii. Providing node-to-node communications with reliable service.

b) Does it make sense for a network to provide a confirmed, connectionless packet

transfer service? Why?

c) Give two features that the data link layer and transport layer have in common. Give two
features in which they differ.

3. a) Sketch the hierarchy of universal set of communication services is provided by

TCP/IP.

b) What difference does it make to the network layer if the underlying data link layer
provides a connection-oriented service versus a connectionless service?
c) An internet path between two hosts involves a hop across network A, a packet-
switching network, to a router and then another hop across packet-switching network B.
Suppose that packet switching network A carries the packet between the first host and the
router over a two-hop path involving one intermediate packet switch. Suppose also that the
second network is an Ethernet LAN. Sketch the sequence of IP and non-IP packets and
frames that are generated as an IP packet goes from host 1 to host 2.

4. (a) Suppose that a host is connected to a connection-oriented packet-switching

network and that it transmits a packet to a server along a path that traverses two packet
switches. Suppose that each hop in the path involves a point-to-point link, that is, a wire.
Show the sequence of network layer and data link layer PDUs that are generated as the
packet travels from the host to the server.

(b) How does the network layer in a connection-oriented packet-switching network differ
from the network layer in a connectionless packet-switching network?