Network Protocols

Digant Tyagi – 30 April 2019

TCP ( Transmission Control Protocol )
 Used for communicating over a network
 TCP is a connection-oriented protocol, which means a connection is established
and maintained until the application programs at each end have finished
exchanging messages
Internet Protocol ( IP )

 Designed explicitly as addressing protocol

 Mostly used with TCP
 TCP/IP is the most popular protocol connecting the networks.
HTTP(HyperText Transfer Protocol)
 HTTP is an application layer protocol that allows web based applications to
communicate and exchange data.
 It is based on TCP/IP.
PPP ( Point to Point )
 Point-to-point protocol (PPP) is a computer network protocol used to transfer a
data between two directly connected (point-to-point) computers
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
 FTP allows users to transfer files from one machine to another
 Types of files may include program files, multimedia files, text files, and
documents, etc
Simple mail transport Protocol (SMTP)
 SMTP is an application layer protocol
 The client who wants to send the mail opens a TCP connection to the SMTP
server and then sends the mail across the connection.
Post office Protocol (POP)

 The Post Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer Internet standard

protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server
over a TCP/IP connection.
IMAP(Internet Message Access Protocol)
 IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a standard email protocol that stores
email messages on a mail server
Telnet(remote login protocol)
 Telnet is a set of rules designed for connecting one system with another
 The connecting process here is termed as remote login
UDP(User Datagram Protocol)
 UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is an alternative communications protocol to
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used primarily for establishing low-latency
and loss-tolerating connections between applications on the internet.
voIP(voice over Internet Protocol)
 VoIP (voice over IP) is the transmission of voice and multimedia content over
Internet Protocol (IP) networks. VoIP historically referred to using IP to connect
private branch exchanges (PBXs), but the term is now used interchangeably
with IP telephony.