Review for Mid-term Exam Two
Here is a list of topics we discussed. The exam will include contents from all these topics of various forms. You are allowed to bring one letter-sized sheet of information with hand-written contents on it (double-sided if you wish), no printed information is allowed during the exam. You will need pen or pencil, and possibly eraser if you use pencil. You will not need a calculator or any other computing devices.
- Internet Protocol (IP) (chpt 4)
- IP datagram format (chpt 4)
- IP addressing (chpt 4)
- ICMP (chpt 4)
- IPv4 vs. IPv6 (chpt 4)
- Routing algorithms (chpt 4)
- Broadcast and multicast (chpt 4)
- Link layer principles (chpt 5)
- Error checking (chpt 5)
- Medium Access Protocols (chpt 5)
- Channel partition
- Random access
- Taking turns
- Aloha family protocols (slotted and un-slotted) (chpt 5)
- CSMA family protocols (CSMA and CSMA/CD) (chpt 5)
- Token based protocols (chpt 5)
- ARP (chpt 5)
- Ethernet (chpt 5)
- Wireless network principles, CDMA, CSMA/CA (chpt 6)
- WiFi family protocols (chpt 6)
- Cellular internet principles (chpt 6)
- Various generations of cellular networks (chpt 6)
- Cellular network and internet (phone vs. internet) (chpt 6)
- Mobile address and routing (chpt 6)
- Mobile IP (chpt 6)