Comp 443 Computer Networks		Final Exam Study Guide

The exam will cover material in the following sections. Some of the
midterm study topics appear here, but some do not (and will thus not
be on the final). 


Chapter 2:	2.5: sliding windows (only as it applies to TCP)

Chapter 4:	4.1: basic IP
		4.2: routing
		4.3: subnets, supernets (CIDR), BGP, and the Internet
		     Global routing issues: provider-based, etc
		     (omit 4.3.5, on IPv6)
               

Chapter 5:	5.1: UDP
		5.2: TCP
			State diagrams
			Timers
			TCP scenarios
			TFTP / WUMP			

		5.3: RPC: NOT ON EXAM!!!

Chapter 6:	6.1: general info
		6.3: TCP congestion control mechanisms
		    Slow Start
		    Congestion Avoidance phase - linear increase
		    Sawtooth graph (p 467, 471, 474)
		    Fast retransmit
		    Fast recovery (general overview)
		    Fairness
		    	Two TCPs with same RTT
		    	Two TCPs with different RTTs
		6.4.1: DECbit
		    RED 
		    TCP Vegas 
		

Here are some relevant exercises from the text.
Numbering is (4th edition)/(3rd edition).
I will post selected answers .

You should definitely read all these exercises, even if you don't
work through them in detail.

Chapter 4:
8/8, 14/14, 17/17, 30/30, 31/31, 33/33, 34b/34b, 39/39, 
45/38, 47/39, 48/40, 54/45b

Chapter 5:
5/5, 20/20, 22/22, 33/33, 36ab/36ab, 39/39, 41/41

Chapter 6:
5/5, 13/13, 16/16 (do for both RWS=1MB and RWS=10MB), 17/17, 
21/22, 23/24, 26/27, 27/28, 30/31, 33/34, 42a/43a