CS 158A                             Final Examination Study Guide       Spring 2008, Prof. M. Moh

Last Update: 5/13/2008

 

·        Final Week Office Hours: 5/15 9:30-10:30am, 5/20 12:30-1:30pm, and 5/21 9-9:30am and 11:30-12:30.

·        Exam Date & Time: Wed 5/21 9:45am

·        General Rule:

o       Approximately 50% of exam problems will be related to homework and quizzes given.

o       Programs/codes are not covered unless otherwise specified.

·        Required: Turn in Project 2 Evaluation Form and Project 3 Evaluation Form

·        Reminder: Project 3 demo is on Tue 5/20/08

 

·        Chapter 4

o       Important:

§         IP datagram header – IPv4 only (but not other headers)

§         Fragmentation and reassembly through routers

§         IP address classes

§         ARP, DHCP, VPN

§         RIP and OSPF, their comparison

§         Mobile IP

§         Subnetting, CIDR

§         Multicast – See homework problems

§         MPLS: Major advantages, mechanisms, label-based forwarding, explicit routing, layer-2 and layer-3 VPN based on tunneling.

 

·        Chapter 5

o       Covered: Sections 5.1 and 5.2

o       Important:

§         UDP and TCP: headers, functions, comparisons

§         TCP’s 3-way handshake, TCP sliding window algorithm

§         Wraparound, keeping the pipe full

§         TCP silly window syndrome, Nagle’s algorithm

§         Adaptive retransmission, TCP extensions

 

·        Chapter 6

o       Not covered: Sections 6.4 and 6.5

o       Important:

§         Resource allocation evaluation criteria

§         Resource allocation fairness

§         FIFO, Fair queuing, WFQ

§         TCP Congestion Control: AIMD, Slow start, Fast retransmission and Fast recovery mechanisms

§         Differences between AIMD, Slow start, and Fast recovery