SDU Service Data Unit

PDU Protocol Data Unit

SAP Service Access Point
PCI Protocol Control Information
IP Internet Protocol
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol [RFC 793]
UDP User Datagram Protocol [RFC 768]
ISP Internet Service Provider
FTP File Transfer Protocol
PPP Point-to-point Protocol
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
RFC Request for Comment
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
FDM Frequency-division Multiplexing
TDM Time-division Multiplexing
unit of data that has been passed down from an OSI layer or sublayer to a lower layer
single unit of information transmitted among peer entities of a computer network
identifying label for network endpoints used in Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking
for layered systems, information exchanged between entities of a given layer, via the service provided by the next lo
network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network bound
connection oriented
automatically assigns IP addresses and other communication parameters to devices connected to the network
 not yet encapsulated into PDU
PDU_n = PCI_n + SDU_n; PDU_n = SDU_n-1
on (OSI) networking
r, via the service provided by the next lower layer, to coordinate their joint operation
aying datagrams across network boundaries

devices connected to the network