Comp 443 Computer Networks		Final Exam Study Guide
Dordal, April 28, 2003

The final is Monday, May 5 (the Mexican holiday "cinco de mayo")


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, BGP, and the Internet
		     (omit 4.3.6, on IPv6)
                     There will be no questions on the specifics of BGP.

Chapter 5:	5.1: UDP
		5.2: TCP
			State diagrams
			Timers
			TCP scenarios
			WUMP scenarios
		5.3: RPC
			SunRPC, NFS (Network File Sharing), T/TCP

Chapter 6:	6.1.2: Taxonomy
		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)
		6.4.1: DECbit
		6.4.2: RED

Here are some relevant exercises from the text. I will post selected answers
at some point.

Chapter 4:
6, 11ab, 27b, 32, 38, 39ab, 40

Chapter 5:
5, 21, 31, 34ab, 37, 39, 42

Chapter 6:
14 (do for both RWS=1MB and RWS=10MB), 20, 24, 25, 28, 39a