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Internet - Answers - networking infastructure that provies services to distrubuted
applications. network of networks

Applicaiton layer - Answers - user to user deals with messages i.e emials ,web objects

Transport Layer - Answers - end to end deals with sending data from segments to
correct socekt i.e multi/demultiplexic

Network Layer - Answers - host to host delivery of datagrams. Classic protocol is
internet protocol

Datalink layer - Answers - hop by hop delivery of frams i.e IP

Physical Layer - Answers - transmists bits through physical media

network protocol - Answers - hardware software message exchange

hosts - Answers - end systems running networked apps

packet switches - Answers - forward packets(chunks of data)

communication links - Answers - fiber,copper, satellite wires

badnwith - Answers - transmission rate

networks - Answers - collection od devices routers links managed by an organization

Protocols - Answers - controls ending/recieving, i.e http

internet as nuts and bolts view - Answers - a network of networks, protocols everywhere

internet as service view - Answers - infastructure that provides service to applocations,
provides programming interface to distributed applocations

LAN - Answers - local area network. Uses physical ethernet cables to connect servers
in small area

RFC - Answers - (Request for Comments) Documents are how standards and protocols
are defined and published for all to see on the IETF website.

,IETF - Answers - Internet Engineering Task Force - develops and promotes voluntary
Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet
protocol suite (TCP/IP).

Network edges - Answers - end systems/hosts

Acess Networks, physical media - Answers - wired, wireless communication links

Network core - Answers - interconnected routers, network of networks

access network - Answers - network physically connection and end system to an edge
router

How to connect end system to edge router - Answers - residential access nets,
institutional acess netowrks, mobile access networks

mobile network access - Answers - WIFI 4G 5G

HFC - Answers - hybrid fiber coax

digital subscriber line - Answers - use existing line i.e tlephone

wireless netowrk acess entworks - Answers - shared wireless connections end system
to router

WLAN - Answers - Wireless Local Area Network. Uses wired radio waves not physical

Wide-area cellular access networks - Answers - - provided by mobile, cellular network
operator (10's km)
- 10's Mbps
- 4G cellular networks (5G coming)

reason its called cellular network - Answers - divided into zones

enterprise networks - Answers - mix of wired, wireless link technologies, connecting a
mix of switches and routers

data center networks - Answers - high bandwith links connect to 100s or servers

tranmission delay - Answers - L/R

How does host send packets of data - Answers - takes applicaiton message, breaks into
packets of legnth L, transmists packets into access network at trasmission rate R, link
transmission rate

bit - Answers - propagates between tramistter/reciever pair

, physical link - Answers - what lies between transmitter and reciever

guided media - Answers - signals propogate in solid media ie cable

unguided media - Answers - signal propogates freely i.e radio

twisted pair - Answers - two insulated copper wires

coaxial cable - Answers - - Two concentric copper conductors
- Bidirectional
- Broadband:
- Multiple channels on cable
- HFC

fiber-optic cable - Answers - glass fibers that use light to transmit information, low error
rate and high speed

Wireless radio - Answers - signal carried in various bands not physical wire, half duplex,
reflection, obstruction and interference

radio link types - Answers - wireless LAN, wide-area, bluetooth, terrestrial microwave,
satellite

packet switching - Answers - host break application layer messages into packets

forwarding - Answers - move packets from router's input to appropriate router output

routing - Answers - global action determine source destination paths taken by a packet

delay time - Answers - total time taken to send and recieve given packets

store and forward - Answers - entire packet must arrive at the router before it can be
transmitted on next link

queueing - Answers - occurs when work arrives faster then it can be serviced

packet queuing and loss - Answers - if arrival exceeds transmission rate

traceroute - Answers - program that provides delay measurement from source to router.

Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) - Answers - -optical, electromagnetic
frequencies divided into (narrow) frequency bands
-each call allocated its own band, can transmit at max rate of that narrow band

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