CS526 S2005 Final Review

CS522 S2005 Final will be in class examine. 5/10 Tuesday, 4:30pm. Open book, Open note.

• Difference between choosing a feature as built-in or as dynamic modules.
• What is the advantage of using Copy-on-Write File system in UML?
• How to configure UML virutal machine netowrk interface?

• Comparison between content switching and Layer 4 switching.
• TCP delayed binding? What is it? What the ways to improve it?
• Pipeline requests, Keepalive requests used in existing web systems
• Switching rules and their conflict detection.

Wireless Sensor Network

• Crossbow has motes operating at 433, 916 MHz? What is the trade-off of using these different frequency? Which one has deeper penertration inside the building? Which has the longest antenna?
• What are the major differences between Mobile Ad Hoc Network and Wireless Sensor Network?
• What are the major difference between Ethernet Frame Format and TinyOS Active Message Format?
• What function is used for processing the time-out event?
• If you were to debug a sensor applications and would like to print out the controller variables i (uint8_t) and j (uint16_t), specifiy the statement will use with TOSSIM? What environment variable you need to set?
• Assume that we use a MIB510 board and USB serial interface adapter to upload the sensor application, called locateFire, to a mica2 mote. A directory similar to Blink was created for the locateFire application. It was found the serial interface was assigned with COM8 port. What will be the commands used for compiling and installing this applications.

Questions from semester project questions. This will be one key questions related to each of the 9 presentations. You pick 4 out of those 9.