Professional Documents
Culture Documents
communicate
▪ peers request service from other
peers, provide service in return to
other peers local or
regional ISP
• self scalability – new peers bring new
service capacity, as well as new service home network content
demands provider
network datacenter
transport transport
network network controlled
link link by OS
Internet
physical physical
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~ entity body ~
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* Check out the online interactive exercises for more examples: http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/interactive/
Application Layer: 2-30
HTTP request message: general format
SMTP user
User Agent mail agent
▪ a.k.a. “mail reader” server
user
▪ composing, editing, reading mail messages agent