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r1.2 - 27 Sep 2007 - 15:31 - Main.nova
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---+++ Computer and network systems ### Merger of Computing & Network Architectures, Operating Systems and Networks & Distributed Computing General * Hardware software interface * Instruction set design * Modelling of computer architectures * System architecture Single data stream architectures * SISD and MISD architectures * Pipeline processors * RISC / CISC, VLIW architectures Multiprocessing and alternative architectures * SIMD, MIMD, EPIC * Systolic architecture * Interconnection architectures * Interconnection networks (hypercube, shuffle-exchange, mesh, crossbar) * Shared memory systems * Cache coherence * Memory models and memory consistency * Array and vector processors * Associative processors * Clusters and grid considerations * Alternative architectures (e.g. dataflow, neural nets, analog) Performance enhancements * Superscalar architecture * Branch prediction * Prefetching * Speculative execution * Multithreading * Scalability Architecture for networks and distributed systems * Attributes * Capacity * Link Capacity * Link Types * Link to Physical Media in Network Network architecture and design *Access schemes, buses, Ethernet, ,internet) * Personal Area Network (PAN) * Local Area Network (LAN) * Campus * Metropolitan (MAN) * Wide Area Network (WAN) * Virtual Private Network (VPN) * Other * Network management and monitoring * Layered protocol design, ISO/OSI, IEEE 802 * Impact of architectural issues on distributed algorithms * Network computing * Distributed multimedia Network design * Topology * Architecture Application based architectures * Process control * Real time and embedded * Signal processing systems * Portable devices * Special servers Distributed system models * Classification * parallel machine models * SIMD * MIMD * SISD * MISD * Flynn's taxonomy * Handler's clasification * message passing * Granularity, levels of parallelism * multiprocessors and multi-computers * topology * tightly coupled architectures * loosely coupled architectures * Processes * threads * clients * servers * code migration * software agents * Clocks * Physical clocks * Logical clocks * synchronization algorithms * Lamport timestamps * vector timestamps * Election algorithms * Link to Algorithms & Complexity * Mutual Exclusion algorithms * Link to Algorithms & Complexity * Distributed transactions * models * classification * concurrency control Overview of operating systems * Role and purpose of the operating system * History of operating system development * Functionality of a typical operating system * Mechanisms to support client-server models, hand-held devices * Design issues (efficiency, robustness, flexibility, portability, security, compatibility) * Influences of security, networking, multimedia, windows Operating system principles * Structuring methods (monolithic, layered, modular, micro-kernel models) * Abstractions, processes, and resources * Concepts of application program interfaces (APIs) * Application needs and the evolution of hardware/software techniques * Device organization * Interrupts: methods and implementations * Concept of user/system state and protection, transition to kernel mode Concurrency * States and state diagrams * Structures (ready list, process control blocks, and so forth) * Dispatching and context switching * The role of interrupts * Concurrent execution: advantages and disadvantages * The "mutual exclusion" problem and some solutions * Deadlock: causes, conditions, prevention * Models and mechanisms (semaphores, monitors, condition variables, rendezvous) * Producer-consumer problems and synchronization * Multiprocessor issues (spin-locks, reentrancy) Scheduling and dispatch * Preemptive and nonpreemptive scheduling * Schedulers and policies * Processes and threads * Deadlines and real-time issues Memory management * Review of physical memory and memory management hardware * Overlays, swapping, and partitions * Paging and segmentation * Placement and replacement policies * Working sets and thrashing * Caching Device management * Characteristics of serial and parallel devices * Abstracting device differences * Buffering strategies * Direct memory access * Recovery from failures Security and protection * Overview of system security * Policy/mechanism separation * Security methods and devices * Protection, access control, and authentication * Models of protection * Memory protection * Encryption * Recovery management File systems * Files: data, metadata, operations, organization, buffering, sequential, nonsequential * Directories: contents and structure * File systems: partitioning, mount/unmount, virtual file systems * Standard implementation techniques * Memory-mapped files * Special-purpose file systems * Naming, searching, access, backups * File attributes * Access control information * Timestamps * Examples: dos, unix, windows, other Real-time and embedded systems * Process and task scheduling * Memory/disk management requirements in a real-time environment * Failures, risks, and recovery * Special concerns in real-time systems Fault tolerance * Fundamental concepts: reliable and available systems * Spatial and temporal redundancy * Methods used to implement fault tolerance * Examples of reliable systems System performance evaluation * Why system performance needs to be evaluated * What is to be evaluated * Policies for caching, paging, scheduling, memory management, security, and so forth * Evaluation models: deterministic, analytic, simulation, or implementation-specific * How to collect evaluation data (profiling and tracing mechanisms) Scripting * Scripting and the role of scripting languages * Basic system commands * Creating scripts, parameter passing * Executing a script * Influences of scripting on programming Communication and networking * Network standards * Standardization bodies * ISO 7-layer reference model (OSI model) * TCP/IP reference model * IEEE 802.x * Switching modes * Circuit switching * Examples * PBX * POTS * ISDN * Packet switching * Data Grouping (revisit this title) * Streams * Datagrams * Physical Media * Wired * Wireless * Network device types * Physical Layer (Layer 1) * Encoding and Modulating * Topology * Signaling techniques * Transmission impairments * Protocol Examples * BlueTooth * Cellular technologies * Bandwidth * Link to Shannon's Theorem/Law in [[Mathematical Foundations]] * Link to Error Control Codes in [[Mathematical Foundations]] * Link to Compression in [[Mathematical Foundations]] * Data link layer (Layer 2) * Logical Link Control * Medium Access Control * Multiplexing * Framing * MAC layer addressing * Medium interfacing * Collision control * Token-based access * Error Detection and control * Layer 2 Switching * Spanning Tree * Source Routing * Virtual LANs * Protocol Examples * Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 * HDLC * PPP * ATM * Frame Relay * IEEE 802.11 * Network layer (Layer 3) * Routing * Routing algorithm * Routing protocols * Layer 3 Switching * Fragmentation and Reassembly * Addressing * Protocol examples * IP * ICMP * Roaming * Example Protocols * IP Mobility Support * Transport layer (Layer 4) * Connection management * Reliability * Flow control * End to end transmission * Segmentation * Protocol examples * TCP * UDP * Application layer * Protocols * Example Protocols * HTTP * FTP * Telnet * SMTP * DNS * Other * Gateway * Middleware * Remote Procedure Call (RPC) * Transaction Processing Monitors (TPM) * Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM) * Object Request Broker (ORB) Network Management * Performance Management * Network Evaluation * Bandwidth * Throughtput * Latency * Jitter * Fault Management * Configuration Management * Domain names * Name services * Accounting Management * Link to SECURIT MANAGEMENT in Security * Examples of Protocols * SNMP (Simple Network Monitoring Protocol) * RMON (Remote Monitoring) * Network Management Software Quality of Service * Approaches * Differentiated Services * Integrated Services * Example Protocol * RSVP (Reservation) * Congestion Management * Queue Management * Link Efficiency * Traffic Shaping and Policing Network Security Link to Security Topic Wireless and mobile computing * Categories of technologies * Personal Area Networks * Protocol Examples * Bluetooth * IEEE 802.15 * Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) * Protocol Examples * IEEE 802.11a * IEEE 802.11b * IEEE 802.11g * Wireless WAN access technologies * Protocol Examples * GPRS * GSM * CDMA2000 1x * WCDMA * CDMA2000 EV-DO * Fixed wireless technologies * Protocol Examples * WiMAX * Satellite communications * Context-aware computing * Links to other layer protocols Process distribution * Mainframe * File sharing (processing on local computer, but files stored on separate unit) * Client-server * Two tiered * n-tiered * Grid comptuing * Mobility support
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