Review of Networking and Design Concepts

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Review of Networking and Design Concepts

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Information, Computers, Networks

Network provides access or connectivity...

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What is “connectivity” ?

System Design Ideas

Multiplexing

Statistical Multiplexing

Example system: Circuit Switching

Example system: Packet-switching

Spatial and Temporal Multiplexing

Virtualization

Virtualization

Circuit, Virtual-ckt, Connection-Oriented, Connectionless

Formal framework: Protocols

Formal framework: Interface design

Techniques:Pipelining and Parallelism

Techniques: Batching

Techniques: Randomization

Techniques: Locality and Hierarchy

Miscellaneous techniques

Performance, Metrics and Parameters

More on Metrics/Parameters

Workloads, Benchmarks

Effect on Design: Amdahl’s law

Perspective

Key networking concepts

Reference Models for Layering

Issues in a point-to-point network ...

Connecting N users: Directly ...

Connecting N users: Indirectly ...

Multi-access networks (contd)

Internetworking

Inter-networks: networks of networks

Multiple Access Protocols

10Base5 Cabling Rules

Interconnection Devices

Interconnection Devices

Ethernet (IEEE 802) Address Format

Frame Format

Serial IP (SLIP)

PPP

MTU

Summary: Laundry List of Problems

Author: Raj Jain

Email: shivkuma@ecse.rpi.edu

Home Page: http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma