Improving Network Performance: Outline
Improving Network Performance
Many ways have been invented to increase the perceived speed of a network.
I. Introduction
A. Why are networks necessary?
B. The need for speed
II. Speedups
A. Hardware Differences
1. Modems / Parallel Ports
2. Ethernet
3. Token Ring
4. Fast Ethernet
B. General
1. Speed vs. Reliability
2. Grouping Data
C. Specific
1. Dead Reckoning
2. Broadcasting
A. Centralized Model
B. Distributed Model
III. Reliability
A. Losing packets
B. Heartbeats
C. Synchronization
IV. Conclusions
A. Optimization depends on the application
B. Speed is not everything
Copyright © 1996-8 Chris Lattner
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