Paper format. Professional Engineers of Ontario, Annual Examinations — December 2016, 07-Elec-B4 Information Technology Networks. Three hours, closed book, a PEO-approved non-programmable calculator permitted. Five questions of 25 marks each; any four constitute a complete paper worth 100 marks, and the marks are printed in the left margin against every sub-part. All five questions are solved here, because this 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 (layering, multiplexing, transport, routing).
- J. F. Kurose and K. W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 8th ed., Pearson — circuit vs. packet switching and TCP congestion control.
- A. S. Tanenbaum and D. J. Wetherall, Computer Networks, 5th ed., Pearson — the OSI reference model and link-layer framing.
- T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed., Pearson — frequency reuse, multipath fading and GSM frame timing.
- 3GPP TS 45.002 (GSM multiframe structure), 3GPP TS 23.401 (LTE evolved packet system), RFC 5681 (TCP congestion control), ISO/IEC 7498-1 (OSI basic reference model).
