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to the CS4514 Home PageHere is the list of topics covered for the final exam and what you should know under each:
* Medium Access Control Sublayer (Chapter 4: 4.3 - 4.5)
+ 802.3 - Ethernet
+ 802.4 - Token Bus
+ 802.5 - Token Ring
+ 802.6 - DQDB
+ Bridges
- General issues in connecting the 802's.
+ High Speed LANS
- FDDI Basics
- Fibre Channel Basics
- HIPPI Basics
- Fast Ethernet Basics
* Network Layer (Chapter 5: 5.1 - 5.2.7, 5.3 - 5.3.7, 5.5.4 - 5.5.7)
+ Services
+ The Optimality Principal
+ Routing
- Shortest Path Routing
- Flooding Routing
- Distance Vector Routing
- Link State Routing
- Hierarchical Routing
+ Congestion Control
- Principles
- Traffic Shaping via Token and Leaky Buckets
+ Internet Specifics
- ARP and RARP
- OSPF
- BGP
* Transport Layer (Chapter 6: 6.1 - 6.2.3, 6.4.2 - 6.4.7)
+ Services
- QoS
- Primitives
- Sockets
+ Establishing a Connection
- Addressing
- Three-way Handshake
- Releasing a Connection
+ Basic TCP (Tahoe)
- Transmission Policy
- Congestion Control
+ Slow start
+ Congestion avoidance
- Timer management Basics
+ TCP Extensions (Reno, Vegas)
- Fast Retransmit
- Fast Recovery
- Linear Decrease (Vegas)
+ RED, ECN and non-responsive flows
* Project 3 - Tiny RLM
+ RLM basics
- Motivation behind
- Media layers
- Receiver initiated scaling
- Detecting congestion
+ UDP sockets
- Sending
- Receiving
+ IP Multicast extensions to UDP
+ Simple Animations
- How to Animate "The Phantom Menace" (kidding)
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