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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: 4.2.3- 4.2.4, 4.3 - 4.5)
+ Collision-Free Protocols
- Binary Countdown
+ Limited-Contention Protocols
- Adaptive Tree Walk
+ 802.3 - Ethernet
+ 802.4 - Token Bus
+ 802.5 - Token Ring
+ 802.6 - Token Ring
+ Bridges
- General issues in connecting the 802's.
* The Network Layer (Chapter 5: 5.1 - 5.2.7, 5.3 - 5.3.7)
+ Services
+ The Optimality Principal
+ Routing
- Shortest Path Routing
- Flooding Routing
- Flow Based Routing
- Distance Vector Routing
- Link State Routing
- Hierarchical Routing
+ Congestion Control
- Principles
- Traffic Shaping
- Choke Packets
- Weighted Fair Queuing
* 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
+ TCP
- Transmission Policy
- Congestion Control
- Timer Management
* Project 2 - Hangin' Out and Chatting in a Coffee Shop
+ TCP Connections
- Receiving
- Sending
+ UDP Connections
- Receiving
- Sending
- Error control
+ Talking to the Server
+ Establishing a Chat
+ How to Make a Coffee Coolata (kidding)
* Project 3 - T-Bone: The Tiny-Backbone
+ MBone basics
- Multicast islands
- Tunneling
+ IP Multicast
- Functionality of
- Similarity/differences to UDP
+ Simple animations
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