CST 311 - Week 7
The final for the course was this past Saturday and covered new material, as well as some of the material from the first part of the course. We read Chapter 6 in the book, which provided an overview of the link layer. This covered LANs, error detection/correction, multiple access, link virtualization and data center networking. The most interesting part of this portion was the section on multiple access protocols, specifically MAC protocols. This included information on the three broad class, channel portioning, random access, and "taking turns." This week's lab also covered the use of a POX controller, as opposed to the generic mininet controller that we frequently use. The stock components we used for this lab were the forwarding hub, learning bridge and the load balancer component. The course has begun winding down, only a couple more assignments left until we finish the class!