CS4513 Final Exam Topic Outline

Possible exam topics:

• HJS03
  • Motivation for work
    • Prevalence of Web traffic
    • Relevance of related work
  • Methodology
    • Data gathering
    • Data sets
    • Limitations
  • Results
    • Request sizes, response sizes
    • User-level Web inferences, objects, servers
    • Comparison with previous work
  • Sampling issues
    • Sample sizes, incomplete connections
• SKH02
  • Introductory
    • Growth in networking and games
    • Virtual reality and related research areas
  • Critical networking resources
    • Bandwidth (bitrate), latency, processing power
      • Unicast vs. Multicast vs. Broadcast
  • Distribution concepts
    • Communication architectures
    • Data and control
      • Responsiveness and consistency
      • Consistency
    • Compensatory techniques
      • Message aggregation
      • Interest management
        • Auras, Focus + Nimbus
      • Dead reckoning
  • Scalability
  • Security and Cheating
    • Vanadlism and Dominance
      • Packet tampering
      • Information exposure
      • Design defects
• BT01
  • Challenges
  • Simultaneous simulations
    • Out-of-synch problems
  • Speed control
  • Lessons
    • Know your user expectations and actions
    • Metering
    • Education
    • Misc
• MKL+02
  • Taxonomy of P2P systems and applications
    • File sharing
    • Computation
    • Collaboration
    • Platforms (middleware)
  • Degree of P2P centralization
    • Pure
    • Hybrid
  • Components and algorithms
    • Centralized index
    • Flooding
    • Document routing
  • P2P systems
    • Historical
    • Distributed computing
    • File sharing
    • Collaboration
  • Case stuies
    • seti@home
    • magi
    • freenet
    • .net
• SGG02
  • Introduction
    • Motivation
    • Approach
  • Methodology
    • Napster and Gnutella architectures
    • Napster crawler
    • Gnutella crawler
    • Active measurements
      • Capacity (SProbe)
      • Latency
      • Lifetime
    • Limitations
  • Results
    • Server-like capacity and latency
    • Reported versus measured capacity
    • Shared files
    • Resiliency in the case of failure

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