Although a course in networking is not formally required for CS 590, familiarity with most of the following acronoyms, terms, and concepts is assumed. If you don't know any of these things then you should not enroll in this course. If you know many of these things and are missing some others, then you can probably pick up the rest as needed. If you know all of these things really well, then please sign up for this class because I need a good student like you!
FTP IP IPv4 LAN MAC Mbps OSI TCP TCP/IP UDP WAN CSMA/CD FDDI 802.3 MAC NAK 10Base-T 100Base-TX 100Base-FX ARP FAQ HTTP NFS RPC WWW
acknowledgement, active repeater, application layer, attenuation, baud, bit pipe, broadcast network, broadcast message, checksum, client-server model, connection-oriented service, connectionless service, copper wire, cyclic redundancy code, data link layer, framing, sliding window protocols, datagram, datagram service, distributed system, error detection, error correction, error-correcting code, error-detecting code, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, frame, frame header, frequency, full-duplex, gigabit network, half-duplex communication, host, host-to-network layer, hub, Internet, OSI layers, token ring, multicasting, multimode fiber, multiplexing, negotiation, optical fiber, OSI reference model, TCP reference model, packet, packet switching, parity bit, passive star, peer, physical layer, point-to-point network, protocol stack, remote login, repeater, request-reply service, response, router, session layer, simplex communication, store-and-forward switching, synchronization, transmission control protocol, transmission media, twisted pair (category 5), unshielded twisted pair, user datagram protocol, wide area network, wiring closet, baseband cable, Berkeley sockets, binary exponential backoff, bridge, broadcast address, carrier sense protocols, collision domain, collision-free protocol, CSMA, CSMA/CD, concurrent server, Fast Ethernet, Fiber distributed data interface, Fibre channel, high-performance parallel interface, hub, iterative server, Manchester encoding, multicast addresses, multiple access protocols, negative acknowledgement, nonpersistent CSMA, piggybacking, port, promiscuous mode, receiving window, repeater, sliding window protocol, slotted time channel allocation, star-shaped ring, stateful server, Switched Ethernet, token bus, token ring, token-holding time, unnumbered frame
You should be able to give comparisons or tradeoffs, or perform calculations, for each of the following sets of items:
fiber vs. copper, OSI model vs. TCP model, data link layer design issues, error-correcting code vs. error-detecting code, concurrent vs. interative servers, stateful vs. stateless servers, connectionless vs. connection-oriented servers, CSMA/CD vs. token ring, Ethernet vs. switched Ethernet vs. Fast Ethernet, ATM LAN solutions, bits delivered to the end user, time to transmit given the data size and data rate, baud rate, minimum frame size for Ethernet, 1-bit delay, binary exponential backoff, ARP