Exam-II
Preparation Material
And
Guidelines
1. Exam Topics
a. Transport Layer
(Lecture Notes and Kurose Ross Book)
i.
Transport Layer Design
Principles
ii.
Reliability,
Multiplexing, …
b. UDP Basic
Functionalities
i.
UDP Segment Structure
ii.
UDP Connectionless
Service
c. TCP Design Issues and Functionalities
i.
TCP Connection
Management
ii.
TCP Segment Structure
and Fields
iii.
TCP Reliable Data
Transfer
iv.
TCP Flow Control
1. Round Trip Estimation
2. Timeout Estimation
3. Stability
v.
TCP Congestion Control
1. Slow Start
2. Dynamic Window Sizing
on Congestion
3. Fast Retransmission
4. Fast Recovery
d. Network Layer (
Lecture Notes and 4.1—4-2, 4.3, and 4.5)
i.
Network Service Models
1. Virtual Circuit and
Datagram Networks
ii.
Routing Algorithms
1. Routing Fundamentals
and objectives
2. Robustness, Fairness,
Optimality
3.
4. Distance Vector
Routing
5. Hierarchical Routing
2. Problem Solving
a. You should be able to
work out questions similar to the ones in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4.
b. You should be able to work
out problems similar to the ones discussed in class using the basic M/M/1 model.