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HOME ASSIGNMENT # 1

1. Define computer network and what is its goal and applications?

2. What is the need for both the hardware and protocol aspect of networks?

3. What is the basic idea of the client-server paradigm?

4. What is meant by ``point-to-point'' and ``broadcast'' networks.

5. What is the difference between broadcasting, unicasting and multicasting?

6. Why layering is used in building computer networks.

7. What do you understand by protocols and how they work?

8. What is concept of encapsulation and how it is used in layering?

9. Define layers of the OSI reference model and the general functionality of each layer.

10. How periodic signals can be represented as a Fourier series and
The significance of this representation on data communication.