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Computer
Networking: A Top
Down Approach
6th edition
Jim Kurose, Keith Ross
Addison-Wesley
March 2012
Chapter 1: introduction
our goal:
get feel and
terminology
more depth, detail
later in course
approach:
use Internet as
example
overview:
Introduction 1-2
Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 what is the Internet?
1.2 network edge
end systems, access networks, links
1.3 network core
network structure
Introduction 1-3
PC
server
wireless
laptop
smartphone
of connected
computing devices:
hosts = end systems
running network apps
communication
wireless
links
wired
links
links
wire: copper, fiber
wireless: radio, light
transmission rate:
bandwidth
global ISP
home
network
regional ISP
Packet
router
switches: forward
packets (chunks of data)
routers and switches
mobile network
institutional
network
Introduction 1-4
Tweet-a-watt:
monitor energy use
Slingbox: watch,
control cable TV remotely
Internet
refrigerator
Internet phones
Introduction 1-5
mobile network
Interconnected ISPs
global ISP
home
network
regional ISP
Internet standards
IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force
RFC: Request For Comments
institutional
network
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provides programming
interface to apps
mobile network
global ISP
home
network
regional ISP
Whats a protocol?
human protocols:
network protocols:
Whats a protocol?
a human protocol and a computer network protocol:
Hi
TCP connection
request
Hi
TCP connection
response
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Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 what is the Internet?
1.2 network edge
end systems, access networks, links
1.3 network core
network structure
Introduction 1-10
Physical media
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Introduction 1-12
signal carried in
electromagnetic spectrum
no physical wire
bidirectional
propagation environment
effects:
reflection
obstruction by objects
interference
terrestrial microwave
e.g. up to 45 Mbps channels
satellite
Kbps to 45Mbps channel (or
multiple smaller channels)
270 msec end-end delay
geosynchronous versus low
altitude
Introduction 1-13
network edge:
mobile network
global ISP
home
network
regional ISP
network core:
interconnected routers
network of networks
institutional
network
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keep in mind:
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institutional link to
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institutional router
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institutional mail,
web servers
wireless LANs:
within building (100 ft)
802.11b/g (WiFi): 11, 54 Mbps
transmission rate
to Internet
to Internet
Introduction 1-21
Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 what is the Internet?
1.2 network edge
end systems, access networks, links
1.3 network core
network structure
Introduction 1-22
mesh of interconnected
routers
packet-switching: hosts
break application-layer
messages into packets
forward packets from one
router to the next, across
links on path from source
to destination
each packet transmitted at
full link capacity
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