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CS F303: COMPUTER NETWORKS

Application Layer continued


Chittaranjan Hota
Computer Science & Information Systems Department
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad
hota@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

04.02.2017
Journey so far

browser
Airtel
BITS Hyd

5 .4 5.14
1 82.7
172.16.3.68

.4 5.1
2 . 75
18

web server
216.58.197.78
Google
Electronic mail (E-mail) statistics
E-mail Architectures: Users on same
mail server (Scenario 1)

2
1

Image source: Forouzan, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.


Sender and Receiver connected
through LAN/ WAN (Scenario 2)
1 AP 9

3/IM
SM
P
PO 8
2
TP

SMTP
5
4 6

Source: Forouzan, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Which scenario is more common?


Web based E-mail

HTTP HTTP
transactions transactions

SMTP
1 2 3
Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions (MIME)
Email addresses

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