Taxonomy Distribution Report

Overview

• Total Concepts: 338
• Number of Taxonomies: 15
• Average Concepts per Taxonomy: 22.5

Distribution Summary

Category	TaxonomyID	Count	Percentage	Status
Foundation Concepts - Prerequisites	FOUND	32	9.5%	✅
LINK	LINK	32	9.5%	✅
NET	NET	30	8.9%	✅
APP	APP	29	8.6%	✅
ROUT	ROUT	27	8.0%	✅
ARCH	ARCH	25	7.4%	✅
SEC	SEC	25	7.4%	✅
TRANS	TRANS	24	7.1%	✅
PERF	PERF	23	6.8%	✅
PHYS	PHYS	21	6.2%	✅
PROG	PROG	18	5.3%	✅
SDN	SDN	17	5.0%	✅
WIRE	WIRE	16	4.7%	✅
OPS	OPS	12	3.6%	✅
CAP	CAP	7	2.1%	ℹ️ Under

Visual Distribution

Foundation Concepts - Pre ████  32 (  9.5%)
LINK                      ████  32 (  9.5%)
NET                       ████  30 (  8.9%)
APP                       ████  29 (  8.6%)
ROUT                      ███  27 (  8.0%)
ARCH                      ███  25 (  7.4%)
SEC                       ███  25 (  7.4%)
TRANS                     ███  24 (  7.1%)
PERF                      ███  23 (  6.8%)
PHYS                      ███  21 (  6.2%)
PROG                      ██  18 (  5.3%)
SDN                       ██  17 (  5.0%)
WIRE                      ██  16 (  4.7%)
OPS                       █  12 (  3.6%)
CAP                       █   7 (  2.1%)

Balance Analysis

✅ No Over-Represented Categories

All categories are under the 30% threshold. Good balance!

ℹ️ Under-Represented Categories (<3%)

• CAP (CAP): 7 concepts (2.1%)
• Note: Small categories are acceptable for specialized topics

Category Details

Foundation Concepts - Prerequisites (FOUND)

Count: 32 concepts (9.5%)

Concepts:

• 1. Computer Network
• 1. Host
• 1. End System
• 1. Server
• 1. Client
• 1. Network Node
• 1. Network Edge
• 1. Network Core
• 1. Communication Link
• 1. Network Interface
• 1. MAC Address
• 1. IP Address
• 1. Port Number
• 1. Protocol
• 1. Standard
• ...and 17 more

LINK (LINK)

Count: 32 concepts (9.5%)

Concepts:

• 1. Framing
• 1. Bit Stuffing
• 1. Byte Stuffing
• 1. Parity Check
• 1. Checksum
• 1. CRC
• 1. Forward Error Correction
• 1. Automatic Repeat Request
• 1. Stop And Wait Protocol
• 1. Sliding Window
• 1. Go Back N
• 1. Selective Repeat
• 1. Media Access Control
• 1. ALOHA Protocol
• 1. CSMA
• ...and 17 more

NET (NET)

Count: 30 concepts (8.9%)

Concepts:

• 1. IPv4
• 1. IPv4 Header
• 1. IPv4 Address Format
• 1. IPv4 Address Class
• 1. Private IPv4 Range
• 1. Loopback Address
• 1. CIDR Notation
• 1. Subnet
• 1. Subnet Mask
• 1. Subnetting
• 1. Supernetting
• 1. Longest Prefix Match
• 1. IPv6
• 1. IPv6 Header
• 1. IPv6 Address Format
• ...and 15 more

APP (APP)

Count: 29 concepts (8.6%)

Concepts:

• 1. DNS
• 1. DNS Hierarchy
• 1. DNS Record Type
• 1. Recursive Resolver
• 1. Authoritative Server
• 1. Root Name Server
• 1. DNS Caching
• 1. DNSSEC
• 1. HTTP Protocol
• 1. HTTP Methods
• 1. HTTP Status Code
• 1. HTTP Headers
• 1. Cookie
• 1. HTTP One One
• 1. HTTP Two
• ...and 14 more

ROUT (ROUT)

Count: 27 concepts (8.0%)

Concepts:

• 1. Forwarding
• 1. Routing
• 1. Forwarding Table
• 1. Routing Table
• 1. Static Route
• 1. Default Route
• 1. Routing Algorithm
• 1. Distance Vector Routing
• 1. Bellman Ford Algorithm
• 1. RIP Protocol
• 1. Count To Infinity
• 1. Split Horizon
• 1. Poison Reverse
• 1. Link State Routing
• 1. Dijkstra Algorithm
• ...and 12 more

ARCH (ARCH)

Count: 25 concepts (7.4%)

Concepts:

• 1. Layered Architecture
• 1. OSI Reference Model
• 1. TCP IP Model
• 1. Physical Layer
• 1. Data Link Layer
• 1. Network Layer
• 1. Transport Layer
• 1. Session Layer
• 1. Presentation Layer
• 1. Application Layer
• 1. End To End Principle
• 1. Separation Of Concerns
• 1. Service Model
• 1. Connection Oriented
• 1. Connectionless
• ...and 10 more

SEC (SEC)

Count: 25 concepts (7.4%)

Concepts:

• 1. Cryptography Basics
• 1. Symmetric Encryption
• 1. Public Key Cryptography
• 1. Hash Function
• 1. Digital Signature
• 1. Certificate Authority
• 1. X509 Certificate
• 1. TLS Protocol
• 1. TLS Handshake
• 1. Cipher Suite
• 1. IPsec
• 1. VPN
• 1. Firewall
• 1. Stateful Firewall
• 1. Intrusion Detection
• ...and 10 more

TRANS (TRANS)

Count: 24 concepts (7.1%)

Concepts:

• 1. UDP
• 1. UDP Datagram
• 1. TCP
• 1. TCP Segment
• 1. TCP Three Way Handshake
• 1. TCP Termination
• 1. Sequence Number
• 1. Acknowledgment
• 1. TCP Window
• 1. Flow Control
• 1. Congestion Control
• 1. Slow Start
• 1. Congestion Avoidance
• 1. Fast Retransmit
• 1. Fast Recovery
• ...and 9 more

PERF (PERF)

Count: 23 concepts (6.8%)

Concepts:

• 1. Bandwidth
• 1. Throughput
• 1. Goodput
• 1. Latency
• 1. Propagation Delay
• 1. Transmission Delay
• 1. Queuing Delay
• 1. Processing Delay
• 1. Round Trip Time
• 1. Jitter
• 1. Packet Loss
• 1. MTU
• 1. Bandwidth Delay Product
• 1. Quality Of Service
• 1. Traffic Shaping
• ...and 8 more

PHYS (PHYS)

Count: 21 concepts (6.2%)

Concepts:

• 1. Signal
• 1. Analog Signal
• 1. Digital Signal
• 1. Modulation
• 1. Demodulation
• 1. Encoding
• 1. Decoding
• 1. Manchester Encoding
• 1. NRZ Encoding
• 1. Symbol Rate
• 1. Baud Rate
• 1. Channel Capacity
• 1. Shannon Theorem
• 1. Twisted Pair Cable
• 1. Coaxial Cable
• ...and 6 more

PROG (PROG)

Count: 18 concepts (5.3%)

Concepts:

• 1. Berkeley Sockets API
• 1. TCP Socket
• 1. UDP Socket
• 1. Socket Address
• 1. Bind Operation
• 1. Listen Operation
• 1. Accept Operation
• 1. Connect Operation
• 1. Send Receive Operation
• 1. Blocking IO
• 1. Non Blocking IO
• 1. Asynchronous IO
• 1. Select And Poll
• 1. Epoll And Kqueue
• 1. Client Server Model
• ...and 3 more

SDN (SDN)

Count: 17 concepts (5.0%)

Concepts:

• 1. SDN
• 1. Control Plane
• 1. Data Plane
• 1. OpenFlow
• 1. SDN Controller
• 1. Network Function Virtualization
• 1. Service Mesh
• 1. Overlay Network
• 1. VXLAN
• 1. Content Delivery Network
• 1. Edge Computing
• 1. Fog Computing
• 1. Post Quantum Cryptography
• 1. Low Latency Networking
• 1. AI Workload Networking
• ...and 2 more

WIRE (WIRE)

Count: 16 concepts (4.7%)

Concepts:

• 1. Wireless LAN
• 1. Wi Fi
• 1. Access Point
• 1. SSID
• 1. BSS
• 1. ESS
• 1. Wi Fi Channel
• 1. RTS CTS
• 1. Wi Fi Roaming
• 1. Bluetooth
• 1. Cellular Network
• 1. 4G LTE
• 1. 5G NR
• 1. Mobile IP
• 1. Handoff
• ...and 1 more

OPS (OPS)

Count: 12 concepts (3.6%)

Concepts:

• 1. Wire Protocol Design
• 1. Protocol Versioning
• 1. Wireshark
• 1. Tcpdump
• 1. Packet Capture
• 1. Iperf
• 1. Network Namespace
• 1. Linux Bridge
• 1. Tc Netem
• 1. Network Logging
• 1. Change Control
• 1. Configuration Management

CAP (CAP)

Count: 7 concepts (2.1%)

Concepts:

• 1. Capstone Chat Server
• 1. Capstone Mini DNS
• 1. Capstone SDN Testbed
• 1. Capstone Network Design
• 1. Capstone P2P File Share
• 1. Incident Postmortem
• 1. Network Benchmarking

Recommendations

• ✅ Excellent balance: Categories are evenly distributed (spread: 7.4%)
• ✅ MISC category minimal: Good categorization specificity

Educational Use Recommendations

• Use taxonomy categories for color-coding in graph visualizations
• Design curriculum modules based on taxonomy groupings
• Create filtered views for focused learning paths
• Use categories for assessment organization
• Enable navigation by topic area in interactive tools

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Report generated by learning-graph-reports/taxonomy_distribution.py