Unit1_COMPUTER_COMMUNICATIONSSlides.pptx

18CSS202J- COMPUTER
COMMUNICATION

UNIT –I Contents
• Evolution of Computer Networks
• Network Categories
• Data Transmission Modes
• Network Topologies
• Circuit Switching and Packet Switching
• Protocols and Standards
• OSI Layers and its functions
• TCP/IP Protocol Suite
• Link Layer Protocols
• Network Layer Protocols
• Transport Layer Protocols
• Serial and Parallel Transmissions
• Addressing

Session 1
Evolution of Computer Networks
Network Categories
Data Transmission Modes
Network Topologies

Evolution of Computer
Networks
Computer Networks?
 A group of interconnected computers
 The evolution of two important scientific and
technical branches of modern civilization
- Computing and
- Telecommunications technologies

Networks
Communication Network?
• A network of links and nodes arranged
messages may be passed from one part of the
network to another
• What are nodes and links?
 People and roads
 Telephones and switches
 Computers and routers
• What is a message?
 Information

Networks
• Networks are Old
• 2400 BC: courier networks in Egypt
• 550 BC: postal service invented in Persia
• Problems
• Speed
• Reliability
• Security
• 1837: Telegraph invented by Samuel Morse
• Distance: 10 miles
• Speed: 10 words per minute
• In use until 1985!

Networks
• 1881: Twisted pair for local loops
• 1885: AT&T formed
• 1892: Automatic telephone switches
• 1903: 3 million telephones in the US
• 1915: First transcontinental cable
• 1927: First transatlantic cable
• 1937: first round-the-world call
• 1946: National numbering plan
• Telephone network is the dominating
communication network
• Used circuit switching

Networks

Networks
Circuit switching
• Telephone networks are circuit switched
• Each call reserves resources end-to-end
• Provides excellent quality of service
Problems
• Resource intense (what if the circuit is idle?)
• Complex network components
(per circuit state, security)

Networks
Packet Switching

Networks
Packet switching
• No connection state, network is store-and-
forward
• Minimal network assumptions
• Statistical multiplexing gives high overall
utilization
Problems
• Resource intense (what if the circuit is idle?)
• Complex network components
(per circuit state, security)

Networks
From the ARPANET to the Internet
• The Advanced Research Projects Agency
Network (ARPANET)
• It is one of the world's first packet switching
networks
• The first network to implement TCP/IP, and was
the main progenitor of what was to become the
global Internet. (later DARPA)

Networks
Internet
• The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer
networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP)
to link several billion devices worldwide
• The packet switching of the ARPANET, together with TCP/IP,
would form the backbone of how the Internet works
1972:
• ARPAnet is nowconsistent of 15 nodes
• The first host-to-host protocol
NCP (Network Control Protocol) enablesapplications to be
written
First e-mail program

Networks
• ALOHAnet
Enabling communication over microwaves between the
Hawaiian Islands.
• NSFNET
Connection to supercomputing centers
56kbps backbone, later 1.5Mbps and serving as the
linking backbone between regional networks
• CSNET
Linking researchers without access to the ARPAnet
• BITNET
University e-mail and file sharing
• TCP/IP replacing NCP as the standard hostprotocol for
ARPAnet

Networks
• Brief History of the Internet
1961: Kleinrock @ MIT: packet-switched network
1962: Licklider’s vision of Galactic Network
1965: Roberts connects computers over phone line
1967: Roberts publishes vision of ARPANET
1969: BBN installs first
InterfaceMsgProcessor at UCLA
1970: Network Control Program (NCP)
1972: Public demonstration of ARPANET
1972: Kahn @ DARPA advocates
Open Architecture
1972: Vint Cerf @ Stanford writes TCP

Networks
• 1958: First use of a modem
Machine to machine communication
Analog vs. digital signals
• Many different computer networks
• Local vs. global
LAN, WAN
• Public Vs Private
Internet2, SRMNet
• General purpose vs. special purpose
E.g. credit cards, banks, defense

Networks
• Early 1990s: WWW
• Hypertext
• HTTP: Tim Berners-Lee develops WWW an Internet
based hypermedia initiative, and specifies URLs, HTTP
and HTML which became basis for today’s WWW
• 1994: Mosaic (Univ. of Illinois), later Netscape the major
browsers until late 1990’s
• Commercialization of the WWW, with introduction of
HTTPS e-commerce is realized
• Late 1990’s:
• 50 million computers on Internet
• 100 million+ users
• backbone links running at 1 Gbps

Characteristics of LAN
• LAN – Local Area Network
• MAN – Metropolitan Area Network
• WAN – Wide Area Network
• PAN – Personal Area Network

Network Categories
Local Area Network (LAN)

LAN
• Local Area Network (LAN) is a group of computers
connected to each other in a small area such as
building, office.
• LAN is used for connecting two or more personal
computers through a communication medium such as
twisted pair, coaxial cable, etc.
• It is less costly as it is built with inexpensive
hardware such as hubs, network adapters, and
Ethernet cables.
• The data is transferred at an extremely faster rate in
Local Area Network.
• Local Area Network provides higher security.

Characteristics of LAN
• LAN's are private networks, not subject to tariffs
or other regulatory controls.
• LAN's operate at relatively high speed when
compared to the typical WAN.
• There are different types of Media Access Control
methods in a LAN, the prominent ones are
Ethernet, Token ring.
• It connects computers in a single building, block
or campus, i.e. they work in a restricted
geographical area.

Applications of LAN
• One of the computer in a network can become a
server serving all the remaining computers called
clients.
• Software can be stored on the server and it can
be used by the remaining clients.
• Connecting Locally all the workstations in a
building to let them communicate with each other
locally without any internet access.
• Sharing common resources like printers etc are
some common applications of LAN.

Advantages of LAN
Resource Sharing: Computer resources like
printers, modems, DVD-ROM drives and hard disks
can be shared with the help of local area networks.
This reduces cost and hardware purchases.
Software Applications Sharing: It is cheaper to use
same software over network instead of purchasing
separate licensed software for each client a
network.
Easy and Cheap Communication: Data and
messages can easily be transferred over networked
computers.

Advantages of LAN
Centralized Data: The data of all network users can be
saved on hard disk of the server computer. This will
help users to use any workstation in a network to
access their data. Because data is not stored on
workstations locally.
Data Security: Since, data is stored on server
computer centrally, it will be easy to manage data at
only one place and the data will be more secure too.
Internet Sharing: Local Area Network provides the
facility to share a single internet connection among all
the LAN users. In Net Cafes, single internet connection
sharing system keeps the internet expenses cheaper.

Disadvantages of LAN
High Setup Cost: Although the LAN will save cost
over time due to shared computer resources, but
the initial setup costs of installing Local Area
Networks is high.
Privacy Violations: The LAN administrator has the
rights to check personal data files of each and
every LAN user. Moreover he can check the
internet history and computer use history of the
LAN user.

Disadvantages of LAN
Data Security Threat: Unauthorized users can access
important data of an organization if centralized data
repository is not secured properly by the LAN
administrator.
LAN Maintenance Job: Local Area Network requires a
LAN Administrator because, there are problems of
software installations or hardware failures or cable
disturbances in Local Area Network. A LAN
Administrator is needed at this full time job.
Covers Limited Area: Local Area Network covers a
small area like one office, one building or a group of
nearby buildings.

Metropolitan Area Network
(MAN)

Metropolitan Area Network
(MAN)
• A metropolitan area network is a network that
covers a larger geographic area by interconnecting
a different LAN to form a larger network.
• Government agencies use MAN to connect to the
citizens and private industries.
• In MAN, various LANs are connected to each
other through a telephone exchange line.
• The most widely used protocols in MAN are RS-
232, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, OC-3, ADSL, etc.
• It has a higher range than Local Area
Network(LAN).

Characteristics of MAN
• It generally covers towns and cities (50 km)
• Communication medium used for MAN are
optical fibers, cables etc.
• Data rates adequate for distributed computing
applications.

Applications of MAN
• MAN is used in communication between the
banks in a city.
• It can be used in an Airline Reservation.
• It can be used in a college within a city.
• It can also be used for communication in the
military.

Advantages of MAN
• Extremely efficient and provide fast
communication via high-speed carriers, such as
fiber optic cables.
• It provides a good back bone for large network
and provides greater access to WANs.
• The dual bus used in MAN helps the transmission
of data in both directions simultaneously.
• A MAN usually encompasses several blocks of a
city or an entire city.

Disadvantages of MAN
• More cable required for a MAN connection
from one place to another.
• It is difficult to make the system secure
from hackers and industrial espionage
(spying) graphical regions.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
• It is also called WAN. WAN can be private or it
can be public leased network.
• It is used for the network that covers large
distance such as cover states of a country.
• It is not easy to design and maintain.
• Communication medium used by WAN are PSTN
or Satellite links.
• WAN operates on low data rates.

Examples for WAN
Mobile Broadband: A 4G network is widely used
across a region or country.
Last mile: A telecom company is used to provide the
internet services to the customers in hundreds of
cities by connecting their home with fiber.
Private network: A bank provides a private network
that connects the 44 offices. This network is made by
using the telephone leased line provided by the
telecom company.

Characteristics of WAN
• It generally covers large distances(states,
countries, continents).
• Communication medium used are satellite, public
telephone networks which are connected by
routers.

Advantages of WAN
Geographical area: A Wide Area Network provides a large
geographical area. Suppose if the branch of our office is in a
different city then we can connect with them through WAN.
The internet provides a leased line through which we can
connect with another branch.
Centralized data: In case of WAN network, data is
centralized. Therefore, we do not need to buy the emails,
files or back up servers.
Get updated files: Software companies work on the live
server. Therefore, the programmers get the updated files
within seconds.

Advantages of WAN
Exchange messages: In a WAN network, messages are
transmitted fast. The web application like Facebook,
WhatsApp, Skype allows you to communicate with
friends.
Sharing of software and resources: In WAN network,
we can share the software and other resources like a
hard drive, RAM.
Global business: We can do the business over the
internet globally.
High bandwidth: If we use the leased lines for our
company then this gives the high bandwidth. The high
bandwidth increases the data transfer rate which in turn
increases the productivity of our company.

Disadvantages of WAN
Security issue: A WAN network has more security issues
as compared to LAN and MAN network as all the
technologies are combined together that creates the
security problem.
Needs Firewall & antivirus software: The data is
transferred on the internet which can be changed or
hacked by the hackers, so the firewall needs to be used.
Some people can inject the virus in our system so
antivirus is needed to protect from such a virus.
High Setup cost: An installation cost of the WAN network
is high as it involves the purchasing of routers, switches.
Troubleshooting problems: It covers a large area so fixing
the problem is difficult.

Personal Area Network (PAN)
• Personal Area Network is a network arranged
within an individual person, typically within a range
of 10 meters.
• Personal Area Network is used for connecting the
computer devices of personal use is known as
Personal Area Network.
• Thomas Zimmerman was the first research
scientist to bring the idea of the Personal Area
Network.
• Personal Area Network covers an area of 30 feet.
Personal computer devices that are used to develop
the personal area network are the laptop, mobile
phones, media player and play stations.

Examples of PAN
Body Area Network: Body Area Network is a network that
moves with a person. For example, a mobile network
moves with a person. Suppose a person establishes a
network connection and then creates a connection with
another device to share the information.
Offline Network: An offline network can be created inside
the home, so it is also known as a home network. A home
network is designed to integrate the devices such as
printers, computer, television but they are not connected
to the internet.
Small Home Office: It is used to connect a variety of
devices to the internet and to a corporate network using a
VPN

Data Transmission Modes
• The data is transmitted from one device to
another device through a transmission mode.
• The transmission mode decides the direction of
data in which the data needs to travel to reach
the receiver system or node.
• The transmission mode is divided into three
categories:
1. Simplex
2. Half-Duplex
3. Full-Duplex

Simplex Mode
1. In simplex mode the data transmits in one
direction only, from one system to another system.
2. The sender device that sends data can only send
data and cannot receive it. On the other hand the
receiver device can only receive the data and cannot
send it.
3. Television is an example of simplex mode
transmission as the broadcast sends signals to our
TV but never receives signals back from our TV. This
is a unidirectional transmission.

Simplex Mode
Advantages of Simplex Mode:
The full capacity of the transmission medium is
utilized as the transmission is one way and cannot
have traffic issues.
Disadvantages of Simplex Mode:
No bidirectional communication is possible. Two
devices cannot communicate with each other
using simplex mode of transmission.

Half-Duplex Mode
1. In half duplex mode transmission can be done both ways
which means if two systems are connected with half-duplex
mode of transmission, they both can send and receive data but
not at the same time.
2. If one device is sending data then other device cannot send
data until it receives the data which is already in transmission.
You can say that the communication is not simultaneous.
3. The radio communication device that our soldiers use at the
battle fields are the examples of half duplex mode transmission
as they send message and then say over and then the person on
other hand send his message and this way they communicate but
not simultaneously like we used to do on mobile.

Half-Duplex Mode
Advantages of Half-Duplex mode:
Both devices can send and receive data.
Whole bandwidth can be utilized as at a time only one
signal transmits.
Disadvantages of Half-Duplex mode:
The disadvantage in half duplex mode is that the other
device cannot send data until it receives the data which is
already in transmission, this can cause delays to the
communication.

Full-Duplex Mode
1. In full duplex mode both the connected
devices can send and receive data
simultaneously. The mobile phone we use is
an example of full duplex mode where we
can communicate simultaneously.
2. Both the devices can send and receive the
data at the same time.

Full-Duplex Mode
Advantages of Full Duplex mode:
No delays in communication as both can
send and receive data simultaneously.
Disadvantages of Full Duplex mode:
No proper bandwidth utilization as the same
line is used for sending and receiving data at
the same time.

Network Topology- Types
• Topology: physical or logical arrangement of
devices
– Point-to-point
– Mesh
– Star
– Bus
– Ring
– Hybrid

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Fully Connected Mesh Topology
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• Pros:
– Dedicated links
– Robustness
– Privacy
– Easy to identify fault
• Cons:
– A lot of cabling
– I/O ports
– Difficult to move

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Star Topology
Hub
A D
B C
Drop
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Star Topology
Switch
A D
B C

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Star Topology
• Pros:
– One I/O port per device
– Little cabling
– Easy to install
– Robustness
• Cons:
– Single point of failure
– More cabling still
required
Hub

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Bus Topology
Drop
line
Tap
Terminator

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Bus Topology
• Pros:
– Little cabling
– Easy to install
• Cons:
– Difficult to modify
– Difficult to isolate fault
– Break in the bus cable
stops all transmission

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Ring Topology
• Pros:
– Easy to install
• Cons:
– Delay in large ring
– Break in the ring stops all
transmission

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Hybrid Topologies
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Network Topology -Comparison
Parameters Bus Ring Star Mesh
Network
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Session 2
• Types of Packet Switched networks
- Datagram networks and virtual Circuit
networks
- Structure of Circuit and Packet Switches
- Comparisons
• Protocols and standards
• Standards Organizations, Forums and
Regulatory agencies
• Internet Standards
• RFC

1 INTRODUCTION
2 CIRCUIT-SWITCHED NETWORK
3 PACKET-SWITCHING
Switching

INTRODUCTION TO
SWITCHING
• Network connections rely on switches.
• Switches operate at the
 Physical layer
 Data link layer
 Network layer

Methods of Switching
• These are the two most common methods of
switching:
 circuit switching
 packet switching
• Packet switching can further be divided into two
subcategories,
 virtual-circuit approach and
 datagram approach

Figure 2: Taxonomy of switched networks

2 CIRCUIT-SWITCHED NETWORKS
• A circuit-switched network consists of a set of
switches connected by physical links.
• Circuit-switches operate at the physical layer.
• A circuit-switched network creates a dedicated path to
complete a link between the sender and receiver.

Figure 3: A trivial circuit-switched network

As a trivial example, let us use a circuit-switched network
to connect eight telephones in a small area. Communication
is through 4-kHz voice channels. We assume that each link
uses FDM to connect a maximum of two voice channels.
The bandwidth of each link is then 8 kHz. Figure 4 shows
the situation. Telephone 1 is connected to telephone 7; 2 to
5; 3 to 8; and 4 to 6. Of course the situation may change
when new connections are made. The switch controls the
connections.
Example 1

Figure 4: Circuit-switched network used in Example 1

As another example, consider a circuit-switched network
that connects computers in two remote offices of a private
company. The offices are connected using a T-1 line leased
from a communication service provider. There are two 4 ×
8 (4 inputs and 8 outputs) switches in this network. For
each switch, four output ports are folded into the input
ports to allow communication between computers in the
same office. Four other output ports allow communication
between the two offices. Figure 5 shows the situation.
Example 2

Figure 5: Circuit-switched network used in Example 2

Three Phases
The actual communication in a circuit-switched
network requires three phases:
• connection setup,
• data transfer, and
• connection teardown.

Figure 6 : circuit-switched network three phases
Data transfer

Efficiency
It can be argued that circuit-switched networks are not
as efficient as the other two types of networks because
resources are allocated during the entire duration of
the connection.
These resources are unavailable to other connections.
In a telephone network, people normally terminate the
communication when they have finished their
conversation.

Delay
During data transfer the data are not delayed at each
switch; the resources are allocated for the duration of
the connection.

Figure 7: Delay in a circuit-switched network
Data transfer

3 PACKET SWITCHING
A packet-switched network divides the data into
packets of fixed or variable size.
The size of the packet is determined by the network
and the governing protocol.
Packet switched networks are classified as
a) Datagram Networks
b) Virtual circuit Networks

Datagram Networks
In a datagram network, each packet is treated
independently of all others.
In a datagram network, each packet is treated
independently of all others.
A datagram network operates at the Network layer.
Even if a packet is part of a multipacket transmission,
the network treats packets as though they existed
alone.

Datagram Networks
Even if a packet is part of a multipacket transmission,
the network treats each packet as an independent
message.
Each packet of one message can travel a different
route towards their final destination.
Packets using this approach are referred to as
datagrams.

Figure 8: A Datagram network with four 3-level switches
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Datagram Networks
All packets have a destination address in the header.
The packets have a destination address in the header.
The destination address for each datagram is used at a
router to forward the message towards its final
destination.
The packet header contains a sequence number in the
header so it can be ordered at the destination.

Figure 9: Routing table in a datagram network

Figure 10: Delays in a datagram network (compare to next slide)

Figure 11: Compare the datagram network to the circuit-
switched network
Data transfer

3.1 Virtual-Circuit Networks
A virtual-circuit network is a cross between a circuit-
switched network and a datagram network.
The virtual-circuit shares characteristics of both.
The virtual-circuit network operates at the data-link
layer.
The packets for a virtual circuit network are known as
frames.

Figure12: Virtual-circuit network

A virtual-circuit network uses a series of special
temporary addresses known as virtual circuit
identifiers (VCI).
The VCI at each switch, is used to advance the frame
towards its final destination.

Figure 13: Virtual-circuit identifier (compare the VCI to
a Datagram destination address)

The switch has a table with 4 columns:
a) Inputs half
•Input Port Number
•Input VCI
b) Outputs half
•Output Port Number
•Output VCI

Figure14: Switch and table for a virtual-circuit
network

Figure15: Source-to-destination data transfer in a circuit-
switch network

Virtual Circuit Networks
The VCN behaves like a circuit switched net because
there is a setup phase to establish the VCI entries in
the switch table.
There is also a data transfer phase and teardown
phase.
.

Figure16: Setup request in a virtual-circuit network
All nodes have a VCI

Figure17: Setup acknowledgment in a virtual-
circuit network

Figure 18: Delay in a virtual-circuit network

Comparison Chart
BASIS CIRCUIT SWITCHING PACKET SWITCHING
Orientation Connection oriented. Connectionless.
Purpose Initially designed for Voice
communication.
Initially designed for Data Transmission.
Flexibility Inflexible, because once a path is set
all parts of a transmission follows the
same path.
Flexible, because a route is created for each
packet to travel to the destination.
Order Message is received in the order, sent
from the source.
Packets of a message are received out of
order and assembled at the destination.
Technology/Ap
proach
Circuit switching can be achieved
using two technologies, either Space
Division Switching or Time-Division
Switching.
Packet Switching has two approaches
Datagram Approach and Virtual Circuit
Approach.
Layers Circuit Switching is implemented at
Physical Layer.
Packet Switching is implemented at
Network Layer.

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Protocols & Standards
Protocols
Communicating worldwide will not be possible if there
were no fixed 'standards' that will govern the way user
communicates for data as well as the way our devices
treat those data
• For proper communication, entities in different
systems must speak the same language
- there must be mutually acceptable conventions
and rules about the content, timing and underlying
mechanisms
• Those conventions and associated rules are referred
as “PROTOCOLS”

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Protocols
Network Protocols:
“Network protocols are sets of established
rules that dictate how to format, transmit and
receive data so computer network devices --
from servers and routers to endpoints -- can
communicate regardless of the differences in
their underlying infrastructures, designs or
standards”

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Elements of Protocols
i) Syntax: The structure or format of the data.
Eg. A simple protocol;
ii) Semantics: - Refers to the meaning of each
section of bits.
- how is a particular pattern to be interpreted, and
what action is to be taken based on that
interpretation.
Eg. Does an address identify the route to be taken or
the final of the message?

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Elements of Protocols
iii) Timing
Refers to two characteristics:
a. When data to be sent
b. How fast it can be sent
Eg. If a sender produces data at 100 Mbps but
the receiver can process data at only 1
Mbps, the transmission will overload the
receiver and data will be largely lost.

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Characteristics of protocol
a) Direct / indirect
Communication between two entities maybe
direct or indirect.
i) point-to-point link
- connection provides a dedicated link
between two devices
- the entities in these systems may
communicate directly that is data and
control information pass directly
between entities with no intervening
active agent.

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ii) multipoint link
- connection more than two devices can
share a single link
- The entities must be concerned with the
issue of access control and making the
protocol more complex.

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b) Monolithic / structured
- The task of communication between entities on
different systems is too complex to be handled
as a unit.
Eg. An electronic mail package running on two
computers connected by a synchronous HDLC
link. To be structured, the package would need
to include all of the HDLC logic. If the
connection were over a packet-switched
network, the packaged would still need the
HDLC logic to attach it to the network.

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c) Symmetric / asymmetric
- Symmetric is the most use in protocol and
involve communication between peer entities.
- Asymmetry may be dictated by the logic of an
exchange (eg; client and a server process) the
desire to keep one of the entities or systems
as simple as possible.

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d) Standard / nonstandard
• If K different kinds of information sources
have to communicate with L types of
information receivers, as many as K x L
different protocols are needed without
standards and a total of 2 x K x L
implementations are required
• If all systems shared a common protocol, only
K+L implementations would be needed.

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Standards
• Standards are essential in creating and
maintaining an open and competitive market for
equipment manufacturers and also in
guaranteeing national and international
interoperability of data and telecommunications
technology and processes.
• They provide guidelines to manufacturers,
vendors, government agencies, and other service
providers to ensure the kind of interconnectivity
necessary in today's marketplace and in
international communication.

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Standards
• Data communication standards fall into two
categories: de facto ( meaning "by fact" or "by
convention") and de jure (meaning "by law" and
"by regulation").
– De facto. Standards that have not been approved
by an organized body but have been adopted as
standards through widespread use are de facto
standards. De facto standards are often established
originally by manufacturers that seek to define the
functionality of a new product or technology.
– De jure. De jure standards are those that have been
legislated by an officially recognized body.

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Standards and Organizations
• Standards are developed through cooperation of
standards creation committees, forums and
government regulatory agencies.
• Some of the standards establishment Organizations
are:
– International Standards Organization
(ISO) http://www.iso.org/
– International Telecommunications Union-
Telecommunication Standards Sector (ITU-
T). http://www.itu.int/ITU-T
– American National Standard Institute (ANSI).
– Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE). http://www.ieee.gov/
– Electronic Industries Association (EIA).

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Forums
• To facilitate the standardization process, many
special-interest groups have developed forums
made up of representatives from interested
corporations.
• The forums work with universities and users to
test, evaluate and standardize new technologies
• The forums are able to speed acceptance and
use of those technologies in the telecommuni --
cations community

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Forums
The forums present their conclusions to the standards bodies.
Some important forums for the telecommunications industry
include the following:
• Frame Relay Forum. The Frame Relay Forum was formed by
digital equipment Corporation, Northern Telecom, Cisco, and
StrataCom to promote the acceptance and implementation of
frame relay. Today, it has around 40 members representing
North America, Europe, and the Pacific rim. Issues under
Review include flow control. encapsulation, translation, and
multicasting. the forum's results are submitted to the ISO.
• ATM Forum. http://www.atmforum.com/ The ATM Forum
provides acceptance and use of Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM) technology. The ATM Forum is made up of Customer
Premises Equipment (e.g., PBX systems ) vendors and Central
Office (e.g., telephone exchange) providers. It is concerned
with the standardization of service to ensure interoperability.

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Regulatory Agencies
• All communications technology is subject to regulation by
government agencies such as Federal Communication
Commission (FCC) in the United States.
• The purpose of these agencies is to protect the public
interest by regulating radio, television, and wire/cable
communications.
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/
• The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has
authority over interstate and international commerce as it
relates to communications

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RFCs
• RFCs go through maturity levels and are
categorized according to their requirement level
– Maturity Levels
An RFC, during its lifetime, falls into one of
six maturity levels: proposed standard, draft
standard, Internet standard, historic, experimental,
and Informational.
– Proposed Standard. A proposed standard is a
specification that is stable, well understood, and of
sufficient interest to the internet community. At this
level, the specification is usually tested and
implemented by several different programs.

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RFCs
– Draft Standard. A proposed standard is elevated to draft
standard status after atleast two successful independent and
interoperable implementations. Barring difficulties, a draft
standard, with modifications if specific problems are
encountered, normally becomes an internet standard.
– Internet Standard. A draft standard reaches Internet standard
after demonstrations of successful implementation.
– Historic. The Historic RFCs are significant from a historical
perspective. They either have been superseded by later
specifications or have never passed the necessary maturity
levels to become an internet standard.
– Experimental. An RFC classified as experimental describes
work related to an experimental situation that does not affect
the operation of the internet. Such an RFC should not be
implemented in any functional Internet service

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RFCs
– Informational. An RFC classified as informational
contains general, historical, or tutorial information
related to the Internet. It is usually written by
someone in a non-Internet organization, such as a
vendor.
• RFC Requirement Levels
RFCs are classified into 5 Requirement Levels:
required, recommended, elective, limited use
and not recommended.

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RFCs
– Required. An RFC is labeled required if it must be
implemented by all Internet systems to achieve minimum
conformance. For example, IP and ICMP are required
protocols.
– Recommended. An RFC labeled recommended is not required
for minimum conformance; it is recommended because of its
usefulness. For example, FTP and TELNET are recommended
protocols.
– Elective. An RFC labeled elective is not required and not
recommended. However, a system can use it for its own
benefit.
– Limited Use. An RFC labeled limited use should be used only
in limited situations. Most of the experimental RFCs fall under
this category.
– Not recommended. An RFC labeled not recommended is
inappropriate for general use. Normally a historic (obsolete)
RFC may fall under this category.

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Protocol Suite
• A set of cooperating network protocols is
called a protocol suite.
• For example, the TCP/IP suite includes
numerous protocols across layers -- such as
the data, network, transport and application
layers -- working together to enable internet
connectivity.

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Types of Network Protocols
Networks have three types of protocols
1. Communication, such as Ethernet
2. Management, such as the Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP); and
3. Security, such as Secure Shell (SSH)
Falling into these three broad categories are
thousands of network protocols that
uniformly handle an extensive variety of
defined tasks

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Implementation of Protocols
• They are coded within software, either
– a part of the computer's operating system (OS) or
– as an application, or
– implemented within the computer's hardware.
• Most modern OSs possess built-in software services
that implement some network protocols
• Applications, such as web browsers, implement
protocols in the form of software libraries
• TCP/IP and routing protocol support is implemented
in direct hardware for enhanced performance

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Session 5
• OSI Model - Layered architecture
– Interfaces between layers
– Encapsulation
– Functions of Each Layer in the OSI Model

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General protocol
architecture principles
• Layered structure
– Protocol stack
• Each layer provides services to upper layer; expect
services from lower one
– Layer interfaces should be well-defined
• Peer entities communicate using their own protocol
– peer-to-peer protocols
– independent of protocols at other layers
– if one protocol changes, other protocols should
not get affected

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Protocol Architectures
and Networks
or ports

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Protocol Data Unit (PDU)
• User data is passed from layer to layer
• Control information is added/removed
to/from user data at each layer
– Header (and sometimes trailer)
– each layer has a different header/trailer
• Data + header + trailer = PDU (Protocol Data
Unit)
– This is basically what we call packet
– each layer has a different PDU

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Operation of a Protocol
Architecture
Transport
Header
Network
Header
Network
Header
Transport
Header
(Network PDU)

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Standard Protocol
Architectures
• Common set of conventions
• Nonstandard vs. standard protocols
– Nonstandard: K sources and L receivers lead to
K*L different protocols
– If common protocol used, we design only once
• Products from different vendors interoperate
– Customers do not stick to a specific vendor
– If a common standard is not implemented in a
product, then that product’s market is limited;
customers like standard products

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Standard Protocol
Architectures
• Two approaches (standard)
– OSI Reference model
• never used widely
• but well known
– TCP/IP protocol suite
• Most widely used
• Another approach (proprietary)
– IBM’s Systems Network Architecture (SNA)

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OSI Reference Model
• Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
• Reference model
– provides a general framework for standardization
– defines a set of layers and services provided by each
layer
– one or more protocols can be developed for each
layer
• Developed by the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO)
– also published by ITU-T (International
Telecommunications Union)

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OSI Reference Model
• A layered model
– Seven layers – seven has been presented as the
optimal number of layer
• Delivered too late (published in 1984)!
– by that time TCP/IP started to become the de facto
standard
• Although no OSI-based protocol survived, the
model is still valid (in the textbooks)
– For Data Link Layer (that we will see later) OSI
protocols are still valid

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OSI - The Layer Model
• Each layer performs a subset of the required
communication functions
• Each layer relies on the next lower layer to
perform more primitive functions
• Each layer provides services to the next higher
layer
• Changes in one layer should not require
changes in other layers

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OSI as Framework for
Standardization
layer functionalities are
described by ISO; different
standards can be
developed based on these
functionalities

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Elements of Standardization
• Protocol specification
– Operates between the same layer on two systems
• May involve different platforms
– Protocol specification must be precise
• Format of data units
• Semantics of all fields
• Service definition
– Functional description of what is provided to the next
upper layer
• Addressing
– Referenced by SAPs

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Layer to Layer
Communication

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Physical Layer
• There is no interpretation at this level, a stream of 1’s and
0’s are put into a form convenient for transmission.
– Waves (with little regard for their information content)
are sent and received.
• This level is the most hardware oriented. It includes
specifications about
– NIC card speeds
– Types and lengths of cable
– Voltage characteristics (range, level or edge)
– Etc.
• The physical layer involves protocols for actual
transmission
– Ethernet
– FDDI
– RS232
– ATM
• These protocols also involve the interface with the next
higher layer

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Data Link Layer (DLL)
• At this layer one begins to consider bytes instead of just
bits, one examines some of the information content of the
signal (at least the address and some of the error detection
sequencing)
• Recall that bridges operate at this level
– They know where a packet is headed.
– They know whether or not it has been involved in a collision.
– Bit stuffing occurs at this level.
• Data packets are encoded and decoded into bits.
• It directs packets and handles errors from the
physical layer

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Data Link Layer (DLL)
• It handles synchronization (timing).
– It must know where one bit ends and the next one
begins.
– It must know where one byte ends and the next one
begins
• The data link layer is divided into two sub-layers:
– The MAC (Media Access Control) sub-layer: takes the
signal from or puts the signal onto the transmission
line (“touches” physical layer).
– The LLC (Logical Link Control) sub-layer: starts to
interpret the signal as data, includes timing
(synchronization) and error checking.

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Network Layer
• The router acted at this layer.
• One of the main functions of the layer is
routing. Store and forward are network layer
functions.
• In a connection-oriented scheme, the virtual
circuit is established at the network layer.
• Building the routing tables, troubleshooting
the routing tables when there is a lot of traffic
or if a connection goes down.
• The network layer also gathers related packets
(packet sequencing).

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Transport Layer
• As stated before, Layer 4 is the dividing line between inter-
computer transactions and intra-computer transactions.
• Layer 4 manages end-to-end verification.
– The lower layers make a “best effort” but if data is lost so be it. Layer
4 must ensure that the information was received intact.
• It does a higher-order error-checking.
• The transfer should be “transparent.” The higher layers do
not know the data came from another computer.
• At a node Layer 3 collects associated packets if one was
dropped it may throw them all away.
• It is the responsibility of the source’s Layer 4 to look for some
acknowledgement that all packets arrived. If no
acknowledgment is received, it should retransmit

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Session Layer
• Recall when discussing connection-oriented
schemes, we mentioned the idea of a “session.”
• It is an agreement between a source and
destination to communicate.
• This layer establishes, manages and terminates
sessions between applications (they could be on
the same computer or on different computers).

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Presentation Layer
• This layer provides independence from
differences in data representation (e.g.,
encryption) by translating from application to
network format, and vice versa.
• The presentation layer works to transform data
into the form that the application layer can
accept.
• This layer formats and encrypts data to be sent
across a network, providing freedom from
compatibility problems. It is sometimes called the
“syntax layer.”

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Application Layer
• This layer supports application and end-user
processes.
• Communication partners are identified, quality of
service is identified, user authentication and privacy
are considered, and any constraints on data syntax
are identified
• Everything at this layer is application-specific. This
layer provides application services for file transfers,
e-mail, and other network software services. Telnet
and FTP are applications that exist entirely in the
application level.
• These are not applications (like Word and Excel) but
services for such applications

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Mnemonic
• Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away
–Please  Physical
–Do  Data Link
–Not  Network
–Throw  Transport
–Sausage  Session
–Pizza  Presentation
–Away  Application

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Session 6
• TCP/IP Protocol suite
• Comparison between OSI and TCP
• Introduction to link layer protocols.- Noiseless
Channel and Noisy Channel
• Addressing

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TCP/IP Protocol Suite
• Most widely used interoperable network protocol
architecture
• Specified and extensively used before OSI
– OSI was slow to take place in the market
• Funded by the US Defense Advanced Research
Project Agency (DARPA) for its packet switched
network (ARPANET)
– DoD (Department of Defense) automatically created
an enormous market for TCP/IP
• Used by the Internet and WWW

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• The TCP/IP protocol suite was developed
prior to the OSI model. Therefore, the layers
in the TCP/IP protocol suite do not match
exactly with those in the OSI model.
• The original TCP/IP protocol suite was
defined as four software layers built upon the
hardware.
• Today, however, TCP/IP is thought of as a
five-layer model with the layers named
similarly to the ones in the OSI model

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• The Layers used in the TCP/IP protocol
– Application layer
– Transport (host to host / end to end) layer
– Internet layer
– Network access layer
– Physical layer
• Actually TCP/IP reference model has been built on its protocols
– That is why that reference model is only for TCP/IP protocol
suite
– and this is why it is not so important to assign roles to each
layer in TCP/IP; understanding TCP, IP and the application
protocols would be enough

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OSI vs. TCP/IP
TCP, UDP
IP
HTTP, SMTP, …

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Network Access and
Physical Layers
• TCP/IP reference model does not discuss these
layers too much
– the node should connect to the network with a
protocol such that it can send IP packets
– this protocol is not defined by TCP/IP
– mostly in hardware
– a well known example is Ethernet

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Internet Layer
• Connectionless, point to point internetworking
protocol (uses the datagram approach)
– takes care of routing across multiple networks
– each packet travels in the network independently of
each other
• they may not arrive (if there is a problem in the network)
• they may arrive out of order
– a design decision enforced by DoD to make the system
more flexible and responsive to loss of some subnet
devices
• Implemented in end systems and routers as the
Internet Protocol (IP)

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Transport Layer
• End-to-end data transfer
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
– connection oriented
– reliable delivery of data
– ordering of delivery
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
– connectionless service
– delivery is not guaranteed
• Can you give example applications that use TCP
and UDP?

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Application Layer
• Support for user applications
• A separate module for each different
application
– e.g. HTTP, SMTP, telnet

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Introduction to link layer
protocols
Traditionally four protocols have been defined
for the data-link layer to deal with flow and
error control:
– Simple,
– Stop-and-Wait,
– Go-Back-N, and (Will be discussed in Unit 4)
– Selective-Repeat (Will be discussed in Unit 4)

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Simple Protocol
• The simple protocol neither do flow control
nor do error control.
• We assume that the receiver can immediately
handle any frame it receives.
• In other words, the receiver can never be
overwhelmed with incoming frames.
• Below figure shows the layout for this
protocol.

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Simple Protocol
• The DLL at the sender gets a packet from its
network layer, makes a frame out of it, and
sends the frame.
• The DLL at the receiver receives a frame from
the link, extracts the packet from the frame,
and delivers the packet to its network layer.
• The DLLs of the sender and receiver provide
transmission services for their network layers

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Stop-and-Wait Protocol
• The Stop-and- Wait protocol uses both flow and
error control.
• The sender sends one frame at a time and waits
for an acknowledgment before sending the next
one.
• To detect corrupted frames, we need to add a
CRC to each data frame.
• When a frame arrives at the receiver site, it is
checked. If its CRC is incorrect, the frame is
corrupted and silently discarded.

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• The silence of the receiver is a signal for the sender
that a frame was either corrupted or lost.
• Every time the sender sends a frame, it starts a timer.
• If an acknowledgment arrives before the timer expires,
the timer is stopped and the sender sends the next
frame.
• If the timer expires, the sender resends the previous
frame, assuming that the frame was either lost or
corrupted.
• This means that the sender needs to keep a copy of the
frame until its acknowledgment arrives.

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• When the corresponding acknowledgment
arrives, the sender discards the copy and
sends the next frame if it is ready.
• Below figure shows the outline for the Stop-
and-Wait protocol.
• Note that only one frame and one
acknowledgment can be in the channels at
any time

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Other DLL Protocols
• HDLC
• Point-to-Point Protocol (P2P)
• Multiple Access Protocols
Note: They will be discussed in unit 4

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Noiseless & Noise
Channels
Noiseless Channel
• An ideal channel in which no frames are lost, duplicated
or corrupted is regarded as Noiseless Channel.
• Protocols belong to this channel are
– Simple & Stop-and-wait protocols
Noisy Channels
• Consider the normal situation of a communication
channel that makes errors. Frames may be either
damaged or lost completely.
• Protocols belong to this channel are
– ARQ (Automatic Repeat Request Protocols)

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ADDRESSING
• Four levels of addresses are used in an internet
employing the TCP/IP protocols:
– physical address,
– logical address,
– port address, and
– application-specific address.
• Each address is related to a one layer in the
TCP/IP architecture, as shown in the following
Figure.

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ADDRESSING
Physical Addresses
• The physical address, also known as the link address, is the
address of a node as defined by its LAN or WAN.
• It is included in the frame used by the data link layer. It is the
lowest-level address.
• The size and format of these addresses vary depending on the
network.
• For example, Ethernet uses a 6-byte (48-bit) physical address
that is imprinted on the network interface card (NIC).
• Most local area networks use a 48-bit (6-byte) physical
address written as 12 hexadecimal digits; every byte (2
hexadecimal digits) is separated by a colon, as shown below.

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ADDRESSING
Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast Physical
Addresses
• Physical addresses can be either
– Unicast (one single recipient),
– multicast (a group of recipients), or
– broadcast (to be received by all systems in the
network).
• Some networks support all three addresses

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ADDRESSING
Logical Addresses
• Logical addresses are necessary for universal
communications that are independent of
underlying physical networks.
• Physical addresses are not adequate in an
internetwork environment where different
networks can have different address formats.
• A universal addressing system is needed in which
each host can be identified uniquely, regardless of
the underlying physical network.
• The logical addresses are designed for this purpose

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ADDRESSING
Port Addresses
• The end objective of Internet communication is a process
communicating with another process.
• For example, computer A can communicate with
computer C by using TELNET. At the same time, computer
A communicates with computer B by using the File
Transfer Protocol (FTP).
• For these processes to receive data simultaneously, we
need a method to label the different processes.
• In other words, they need addresses. In the TCP/IP
architecture, the label assigned to a process is called a
port address.
• A port address in TCP/IP is 16 bits in length.

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ADDRESSING
Application-Specific Addresses
• Some applications have user-friendly addresses
that are designed for that specific application.
• Examples include the e-mail address (for example,
co_sci@yahoo.com) and the Universal Resource
Locator (URL) (for example, www.mhhe.com).
• The first defines the recipient of an e-mail; the
second is used to find a document on the World
Wide Web.
• These addresses, however, get changed to the
corresponding port and logical addresses by the
sending computer.

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Session 9
Network layer protocols:
– ARP
– RARP and
– ICMP

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Network Layer Protocols
Network layer protocols:
– IPv4 is responsible for packetizing, forwarding, and
delivery of a packet.
– ICMPv4 helps IPv4 to handle some errors that may
occur in delivery.
– IGMP is used to help IPv4 in multicasting.
– ARP is used in address mapping and
– RARP is also used in address mapping but in reverse

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Position of NLP in TCP/IP
Stack Suite

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ICMP V4
• ICMPv4 - The IPv4 has no error-reporting or error-
correcting mechanism
• The IP protocol also lacks a mechanism for host and
management queries
• The Internet Control Message Protocol version 4
(ICMPv4) has been designed to compensate for the
above two deficiencies
• ICMP MESSAGES
– Error-reporting messages report problems that a router
or a host (destination) may encounter when it processes
an IP packet.
– Query messages help a host or a network manager get
specific information from a router or another host.

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ICMP V4
General format of ICMP messages

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ICMP V4
Contents of data field for the error messages

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ARP
Address Resolution Protocol

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ARP
Reaching a Physical Host

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Reverse Address
Resolution Protocol (RARP)

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Session 10
• Transport layer Protocols
- TCP and UDP
• Data transmission
– Parallel and Serial
• Serial transmission types

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TCP
• Transmission Control Protocol
– end to end protocol
– Reliable connection = provides flow and error control
• In TCP terms, a connection is a
temporary association between entities in different
systems
• TCP PDU
– Called “TCP segment”
– Includes source and destination port
• Identify respective users (applications)
• pair of ports (together with the IP addresses) uniquely identify
a connection; such an identification is necessary in order TCP
to track segments between entities.

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UDP
• User Datagram Protocol
• Alternative to TCP
– end-to-end protocol
• Not guaranteed delivery
• No preservation of sequence
• No protection against duplication
• Minimum overhead

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PDUs in TCP/IP
Dest. Port
Sequence number
Checksum
….
Dest. Address
Source address
….
Dest. Network Address
Priority info

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Data Transmission
• Data transmission refers to the process of
transferring data between two or more digital
devices.
• Data is transmitted from one device to another in
analog or digital format.
• Basically, data transmission enables devices or
components within devices to speak to each other.
• There are two methods used to transmit data
between digital devices: serial transmission
and parallel transmission

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Serial Data Transmission
• When data is sent or received
using serial data transmission, the data bits are
organized in a specific order, since they can only be
sent one after another.
• The order of the data bits is important as it dictates
how the transmission is organized when it is
received.
• It is viewed as a reliable data transmission method
because a data bit is only sent if the previous data
bit has already been received.

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• Asynchronous Serial Transmission
Data bits can be sent at any point in time.
Stop bits and start bits are used between data
bytes to synchronize the transmitter and
receiver and to ensure that the data is
transmitted correctly. The time between
sending and receiving data bits is not
constant, so gaps are used to provide time
between transmissions.

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• The advantage of using the asynchronous
method is that no synchronization is required
between the transmitter and receiver devices. It
is also a more cost effective method.
• A disadvantage is that data transmission can be
slower, but this is not always the case.
• Serial transmission is normally used for long-
distance data transfer. It is also used in cases
where the amount of data being sent is relatively
small. It ensures that data integrity is maintained
as it transmits the data bits in a specific order,
one after another. In this way, data bits are
received in-sync with one another

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Synchronous Serial Transmission
Data bits are transmitted as a continuous stream in
time with a master clock. The data transmitter and
receiver both operate using a synchronized clock
frequency; therefore, start bits, stop bits, and gaps are
not used. This means that data moves faster and
timing errors are less frequent because the transmitter
and receiver time is synced. However, data accuracy is
highly dependent on timing being synced correctly
between devices. In comparison with asynchronous
serial transmission, this method is usually more
expensive.

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Parallel Data Transmission
• When data is sent
using parallel data transmission, multiple data
bits are transmitted over multiple channels at
the same time.
• This means that data can be sent much faster
than using serial transmission methods.

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• Given that multiple bits are sent over multiple
channels at the same time, the order in which a
bit string is received can depend on various
conditions, such as proximity to the data source,
user location, and bandwidth availability.
• Two examples of parallel interfaces can be seen
below. In the first parallel interface, the data is
sent and received in the correct order.
• In the second parallel interface, the data is sent
in the correct order, but some bits were received
faster than others.

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• The main advantages of parallel transmission over
serial transmission are:
- it is easier to program;
- data is sent faster.
Although parallel transmission can transfer data
faster, it requires more transmission channels than
serial transmission. This means that data bits can
be out of sync, depending on transfer distance and
how fast each bit loads.
• A simple of example of where this can be seen is
with a voice over IP (VOIP) call when distortion or
interference is noticeable. It can also be seen when
there is skipping or interference on a video stream.

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Parallel transmission is used when:
- a large amount of data is being sent;
- the data being sent is time-sensitive;
- and the data needs to be sent quickly.
• A scenario where parallel transmission is used to
send data is video streaming. When a video is
streamed to a viewer, bits need to be received
quickly to prevent a video pausing or buffering.
• Video streaming also requires the transmission of
large volumes of data.
• The data being sent is also time-sensitive as slow
data streams result in poor viewer experience.

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