05 May, 2015

Syallabus for Final exam

OSI model, client server model, TCP/IP protocols, Introduction to UNIX; Process, groups, reliable and unreliable signals, shell Programming.

Inter process communication in Unix, pipes, half duplex and full duplex pipes, FIFOs, properties of pipes and FIFOs, POSIX message queues, system V message queues, semaphores, shared memory, map function and its use, RPC, authentication, timeout and retransmission, cal semantics, XDR.


Communication Protocol – Introduction, TCP, IP, XNS, SNA, NetBIOS, OSI protocols, comparisons.


Introduction to Berkeley sockets, socket addressing, TCP and UDP socket functions, sockets and Unix signals, socket implementation, client and server examples for TCP and UDP and their behavior under abnormal conditions.


Socket options, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, I/O multiplexing, Unix I/O models, select and poll functionsSystem V Transport Layer, interface – Introduction Transport End Point address, TLI.