461 midterm topics

• OSI 7-layer model,
• Clock recovery,
• bit encoding,
• scrambling,
• framing,
• HDLC frames,
• error correction and detection codes,
• switching,
• bus switching architecture,
• banyan switching fabric,
• crossbar switches,
• buffered crossbar switches,
• head of line blocking,
• FIFO queueing,
• flat addressing vs hierarchical addressing,
• data link addressing vs. network layel addressing,
• radix trie,
• multiaccess networks,
• ethernet,
• CSMA/CD,
• exponential backoff,
• components of a network layer,
• circuit switching,
• time division multiplexing,
• digital hierarchy,
• virtual circuits,
• IP TTL,
• IP service model,
• IP over ethernet,
• ARP,
• Routing metrics,
• Routing updates and advertisements,
• distance vector routing,
• counting to infinity,
• split horizon,
• poisonous reverse,
• dijkstra's algorithm,
• flooding.