ITEC 350 Study Guideline for Final Exam

 

 

Please study based on the lecture slides which we used in class. All the lecture slides and lecture videos are posted on D2L.

 

Note: The final exam will be comprehensive. Thus, please refer the study guideline of the midterm exams.

 

  1. Chapter 3
    1. Line Coding

                                       i.    Unipolar NRZ

                                      ii.    Polar NRZ

                                     iii.    NRZ-inverted (differential encoding)

                                     iv.    Bipolar encoding

                                      v.    Manchester encoding

                                     vi.    Differential Manchester encoding

 

    1. Error Detection & Correction

                                       i.    Single Parity Check

                                      ii.    Two Dimensional Parity Check

                                     iii.    CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) Code

 

  1. Chapter 5 – Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ): You should know how it works.
    1. Stop-and-Wait ARQ
    2. Go-Back N ARQ
    3. Selective Repeat ARQ
    4. Sliding Window Protocol

 

  1. Chapter 7
    1. Centralized Routing vs. Distributed Routing
    2. Static Routing vs. Dynamic Routing
    3. Flooding, Limited Flooding
    4. Shortest Path Routing Algorithm

                                       i.    Distance Vector Algorithm, Bellman-Ford Algorithm

                                      ii.    Counting to infinite problem & its solution

                                     iii.    Link State Algorithm, Dijkstra Algorithm

 

  1. Chapter 8
    1. RIP
    2. Interior Gateway Protocol, OSPF
    3. Exterior Gateway Protocol, BGP

 

  1. Security Basic
    1. Symmetric Key Cryptography
    2. DES
    3. Asymmetric Key Cryptography, Public Key Cryptography
    4. RSA