Review
- Chapter 1: network basics
- Chapter 2: ethernet, internet, ATM, layered models, digital transmission (appendix C)
- Chapter 7: physical layer: fiber, copper, radio
- Chapter 6: LAN technologies: framing, Aloha, Ethernet, FDDI, wireless,
error detection
- Chapter 5: ATM
Things to know (or look up)
- hubs, switches, routers
- shared medium vs. point-to-point
- latency and throughput computations
- how the properties of the physical layer affect higher layers
- framing
- "no magic"
- routing
- connection-oriented vs. connectionless
More things to know (or look up)
- signaling
- distributed computations
- why we need protocols (agreements, standards)
- collision detection, binary exponential backoff
- main lessons in the homeworks, projects, quizzes, book, lectures
- understanding from project 1, project 2 description