Introduction and Internet Applications

Chapter 1 & 2

Introduction and Overview

updated: 8/26/14

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Networking Seems Complex
•  The networking subject seems complex, because
–  Different technologies exist and each is adopted for a particular application
•  Each technology has features that distinguish it from the others
–  Companies create commercial network products and services
•  often by using technologies in new unconventional ways
–  Different technologies must be combined and interconnected in many ways
•  Computer networks can be especially confusing to a beginner because
–  No single underlying theory exists that explains the relationship among all
parts
–  Multiple organizations have created computer networks standards
–  Various organizations have attempted to define conceptual models
–  The set of technologies is diverse and changes rapidly
•  The lack of consistency in the field has produced another challenge for
beginners:
–  Multiple groups each attempt to create their own terminology
–  Computer networking jargon contains terms that are often abbreviated,
misused, or associated with products

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The Five Key Aspects of Networking
1.  Network Applications and Network Programming
2.  Data Communications
3.  Switching Networks (Packet Switching and Circuit Switching)
Technologies
4.  Internetworking with TCP/IP
5.  Additional Networking Concepts and Technologies

These are the course objectives!

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Network Applications and Network
Programming
•  Network services are provided by an application software
–  an application on one computer communicates across a network with
an application program running on another computer
•  Network applications span a wide range, such as:
–  email
–  file transfer Network HW and Software
–  web browsing are Separate from
–  voice telephone calls (VoIP) One another!
–  distributed databases
–  audio/video teleconferencing
•  Each application offers a specific service to the user using a
specific user interface
–  But all applications can communicate over a single, shared network
•  To write the application software one must learn about one
interface to network
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Examples of Network Services

voice mail Twitter

instant
e-mail chat rooms
messaging

newsgroups telephony videoconferencing

collaboration groupware global positioning

system (GPS)
Computing, Datacom, Telecom

Ref: Agilent Technologies

Data Communications:
•  Refers to the study of low-level mechanisms and
technologies used to send information across a physical
communication medium
•  Provides a foundation of concepts on which the rest of
networking is built
•  Focuses on ways to use physical phenomena to transfer
information
–  impacts the design of many protocol layers

Transmission
System
(media)

Data Communication System Model 7

Packet Switching and Networking Technologies
•  In 1960s, the packet switching concept revolutionized data
communications
•  Early communication networks had evolved from telegraph
and telephone systems
–  A physical pair of wires between two parties to form a dedicated
circuit
•  Packet switching changed networking in a fundamental way
–  Packet switching divides data into small blocks, called packets
•  It includes an identification of the intended recipient in each packet
•  Devices throughout the network each have information about how to reach
each possible destination
–  Packet switching allows multiple users to share a network
–  It provided the basis for the modern Internet

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Packet Switching and Networking Technologies
- Basic Characteristics
•  Many designs for packet switching are possible
–  Depending on speed, distance, and economic cost
•  But there is a need for answers to basic questions:
–  How should a destination be identified?
–  How can a sender find the identification of a destination?
–  How large should a packet be?
–  How can a network recognize the end and beginning of one packet?
–  If a network is shared, then how can they coordinate to insure that
each receives a fair opportunity to send?
–  How can network technologies be designed to meet various
requirements for speed, distance, and economic cost?
–  How can packet switching be interfaced to other networks (e.g.,
wireless)?

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Internetworking with TCP/IP
•  In the 1970s, another revolution in computer networks
arose: Internet
–  connecting multiple networks together
•  In 1973, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn
–  Proposed that a single packet switching technology cannot meets
everyone’s needs
–  They explored interconnecting many packet switching technologies
into a functioning whole
–  They proposed a set of standards to be developed for such an
interconnection
–  The resulting standards became known as the TCP/IP Internet
Protocol Suite (usually abbreviated TCP/IP)
•  TCP / IP takes a virtualization approach
–  Defining a network-independent packet and identification scheme

The success of TCP/IP lies in its tolerance of heterogeneity

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Public and Private Parts of the Internet
•  From ownership point of view, we can categorize networks
–  Public Networks
–  Private Networks
•  A public network is run as a service that is available to
subscribers (Toll ways!)
–  Any individual or corporation who pays the subscription fee can use
–  A company that offers service is known as a service provider (ISP)
–  Public refers to the general availability of service, not to the data
being transferred
•  A private network is controlled by one particular group
–  network use is restricted to one group
–  a private network can include circuits leased from a provider

Read about Net Neutrality!

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ISP and its Services

ISP
School
ISP

Homes

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Private Network
•  Network vendors generally divide private networks into four
categories based on the size:
–  Consumer
–  Small Office / Home Office (SOHO)
–  Small-to-Medium Business (SMB)
–  Large Enterprise

Project
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Topic
Networks, Interoperability, and Standards
•  All entities (e.g., TX & RX) in a network must agree on how
information will be represented and communicated
–  Signal, hand shaking, format, etc.
•  An important issue is interoperability
–  it refers to the ability of two entities to communicate
•  All communicating parties must agree on details and follow
the same set of rules, an exact set of specifications
•  Communication protocol, network protocol, or simply
protocol to refer to a specification for network
communication
Data Representation
Interoperability
Rules and specifications

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Protocol Suites and Layering Models
•  A set of protocols must be
constructed
•  Each protocol should handle a part
of communication not handled by
other protocols
–  protocols are designed in complete,
cooperative sets called suites or
families The layering Model for the IP
–  Each protocol in a suite handles one
aspect of networking
•  The fundamental abstraction used
to collect protocols into a unified
whole is known as a layering
model
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Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
Seven-Layer Reference Model

Eventually, it became clear that TCP/IP

technology was technically superior to OSI
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Open Systems
Alternative Naming
Interconnection
(OSI) Seven-
Layer Reference
Model

The layering Model for the IP

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Protocol Suites and Layering Models
•  Physical Layer (Layer 1)
–  specify details about the underlying transmission medium and
hardware
–  all specifications related to electrical properties, radio frequencies,
and signals belong in layer 1
•  Network Interface (or Data Link) Layer (Layer 2)
–  Network (physical) addresses
–  maximum packet size that a network can support
–  protocols used to access the underlying medium

Or Network Layer
Or Data Layer

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Protocol Suites and Layering Models
•  Internet Layer (Layer 3)
–  protocols specifying communication across the Internet & routing
specifications (spanning multiple interconnected networks)
–  Logical addressing and path determination
•  Transport Layer (Layer 4)
–  Includes specifications on
•  controlling the maximum rate a receiver can accept data (flow control)
•  mechanisms to avoid network congestion
•  techniques to insure that all data is received in the correct order

Remember: Each layer contains its own specifications & protocols!

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Protocol Suites and Layering Models
•  Application Layer (Layer 5)
–  specify how a pair of applications interact when they communicate
–  specify details about
•  the meaning of messages that applications can exchange
•  the procedures to be followed to execute the application
–  Some examples of network applications in layer 5
•  email exchange
•  file transfer
•  web browsing
•  telephone services
•  and video teleconferencing

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How Data Passes Through Layers

Each computer has a

layered protocols
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More complex routing!
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Headers and Layers

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How Data Passes Through Layers

Demo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb4hVvlCx40
ISO and the OSI Seven-Layer Reference Model

•  At the same time the Internet protocols were being

developed, two large standards bodies jointly formed an
alternative reference model
–  They also created a set of internetworking protocols
•  These organizations are:
–  International Standardization Organization (ISO)
–  International Telecommunications Union, Telecommunication (ITU-T)
•  The ITU was known as the Consultative Committee for International
Telephone and Telegraph (CCITT)
•  The ISO layering model is known as the Open Systems
Interconnection (OSI) Seven-Layer Reference Model

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Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)
Seven-Layer Reference Model

Eventually, it became clear that TCP/IP

technology was technically superior to OSI
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What is the plan?

Top-bottom / bottom-up
approaches
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References

Video General
•  Understanding the OSI •  https://www.youtube.com/
Reference Model - user/soundtraining
https://www.youtube.com/ •  http://
watch?v=sVDwG2RdJho www.soundtraining.net/
•  OSI Model (and TCP):
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=CXVINBruzhY
•  Animation:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Kb4hVvlCx40