Paper format. Professional Engineers of Ontario, Annual Examinations — December 2015, 07-Elec-B4 Information Technology Networks. Three hours, closed book, a PEO-approved non-programmable calculator permitted. Five questions; any four constitute a complete paper worth 100 marks, and marks are printed in the left margin against each sub-part. All five questions are solved here, because the set is a study resource rather than an exam attempt.
Reference texts.
- A. Leon-Garcia and I. Widjaja, Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill — the syllabus text for this paper (medium access, transport, routing).
- J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 8th ed., Pearson — TCP congestion control and link-state routing.
- A. S. Tanenbaum and D. J. Wetherall, Computer Networks, 5th ed., Pearson — MAC protocols, 802.11 and Bluetooth.
- W. Stallings, Data and Computer Communications, 10th ed., Pearson — LAN standards and framing.
- T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall — the cellular concept, frequency reuse and MIMO fundamentals.
- IEEE Std 802.11-2020 and IEEE Std 802.3-2022 for the normative timing parameters quoted below.
