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This class was created by Brainscape user Tahmed Ahmed. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

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Decks in this class (10)

Application Layer I
To give an overview of: • The Internet and its components and services • Protocols and protocol layers To understand: • The main principles of network applications • Application architectures • Process communication • Transport services
33  cards
Application Layer II
To understand: • Web services and HTTP • The electronic mail
21  cards
Distributed Systems
• The main principles of distributed systems • Communication in client-server systems • Socket programming • Remote Procedure Calls • Pipes
16  cards
Transport Layer I
To understand: • Transport layer services and protocols • Multiplexing and demultiplexing • Connectionless transport • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
15  cards
Transport Layer II
• Connection-oriented transport • Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) • Segment structure • Reliable data transfer • Flow control • Connection management • Congestion control
14  cards
Network Layer I
To understand: • The Network layer key functions • Forwarding / Routing • Routing algorithms
17  cards
Operating Systems Structures and Processes
• To describe the services an operating system provides to users, processes, and other systems. • To understand: • What is meant by Process in an operating systems sense • The composition of a process and how a process is scheduled in an operating system
44  cards
Process management: Threads
• To introduce the notion of a thread—a fundamental unit of CPU utilisation that forms the basis of multithreaded computer systems • To discuss the APIs for the Java thread library
15  cards
Process management: Synchronisation
• To introduce the critical section problem, whose solutions can be used to ensure the consistency of shared data. • To present the software (not hardware!) solution of the critical section problem. • To examine several classical process synchronisation problems. • To explore several tools that are used to solve process synchronisation problems.
1  cards
Security
• To discuss security threats and attacks. • To understand the fundamentals of encryption
31  cards

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