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What are advantages and disadvantages of a layered architecture? - answer...Each protocol layer offers different services. Layered Architecture - answer...Each protocol layer offers different services. Layered Architecture Advantages - answer...- Scalability, - Flexibility - Ease of adding / removing components making it easier for cost-effective implementations. Layered Architecture Disadvantages - answer...- Some layers functionality depends on the information from the other layer and violates the goal of layer separation; - One layer may duplicate lower layer functionalities - Overhead both in computation - Overhead in message headers caused by abstraction barriers between layers.

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What are advantages and disadvantages of a layered architecture? - answer...Each protocol layer
offers different services.



Layered Architecture - answer...Each protocol layer offers different services.



Layered Architecture Advantages - answer...- Scalability,

- Flexibility

- Ease of adding / removing components making it easier for cost-effective implementations.



Layered Architecture Disadvantages - answer...- Some layers functionality depends on the
information from the other layer and violates the goal of layer separation;

- One layer may duplicate lower layer functionalities

- Overhead both in computation

- Overhead in message headers caused by abstraction barriers between layers.



OSI and Five-Layered Internet model Similarities - answer...Many of the layers are the same



OSI and Five-Layered Internet model Differences - answer...- Three of the layers are combined in
the 5-layered model.

- Specifically the five-layer model combines the

- Application

- Presentation

- Session layers

,from the OSI model into a single Application layer.



What are sockets? - answer...- A network socket is a software structure within a network node of
a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the
network.

- The structure and properties of a socket are defined by an application programming interface
(API) for the networking architecture.

- Sockets are created only during the lifetime of a process of an application running in the node.

- ."A process sends messages into, and receives messages from, the network through a software
interface called a socket.

- Let's consider an analogy to help us understand processes and sockets. A process is analogous
to a house and its socket is analogous to its door....a socket is the interface between the
application layer and the transport layer within a host." - Kurose and Ross, 2.1



Describe each layer of the OSI model. - answer...- Application layer: Service, Interface, Protocol.



- Presentation layer: Plays intermediate role of formatting the information received from the
layer below and delivering it to the application layer.



- Session layer: Responsible for the mechanism that manages the different transport streams
that belong to the same session between end-user and application process.



- Transport layer: Responsible for the end-to-end communication between end hosts.



Network layer: This layer is responsible for moving the packet of information, called a datagram,
from one host to another.



- Data Link layer: Responsible for moving the frames from one node (host or router) to the next
node.

,- Physical layer: This layer is the actual hardware responsible to transfer bits within a frame
between two nodes c



OSI Model Application Layer - answer...- Service, Interface, Protocol.



Ex: Turn on your smartphone and look at the list of apps. (HTTP, SMTP, FTP, DNS)



OSI Model Presentation Layer - answer...- Plays intermediate role of formatting the information
received from the layer below and delivering it to the application layer.



Ex: converting big endian to little endian.



OSI Model Session Layer - answer...- Responsible for the mechanism that manages the different
transport streams that belong to the same session between end-user and application process.



Ex: teleconference app, it is responsible for tying together audio and video streaming.



OSI Model Network Layer - answer...- This layer is responsible for moving the packet of
information, called a datagram, from one host to another.



- Responsible for delivering the datagram to the Transport layer on the destination host.



- In this layer there are the IP Protocol and the routing tables.



OSI Model Transport Layer - answer...- Responsible for the end-to-end communication between
end hosts.

, - 2 protocols, TCP and UDP.



- TCP includes a connection-oriented service to the applications that are running on the layer
above, guaranteed delivery of the application-layer messages, flow control, and congestion
control mechanism.



- UDP provides a connectionless, best-effort service to the applications that are running in the
layer above without reliability, flow, or congestion control.



- In this layer the packet is called a segment.



OSI Model Data Link Layer - answer...- Packets are referred to as frames.



- Examples include:

- ethernet,

- ppp,

- wifi.



- Responsible for moving the frames from one node (host or router) to the next node.



- Services offered by the ___________ layer protocol include reliable delivery (transmission of
the data from one transmitting node, across one link, to the receiving node.



OSI Model Physical Layer - answer...This layer is the actual hardware responsible to transfer bits
within a frame between two nodes c

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