CDT2 Summary
CDT2 Summary
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Motivation Networking engineering is a complicated task, which involves software, firmware, chip
level engineering, hardware, and electric pulses. To ease network engineering, the whole
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networking concept is divided into multiple layers. Each layer is involved in some
(students) should
particular task and is independent of all other layers. But as a whole, almost all
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networking tasks depend on all of these layers. Layers share data between them and
they depend on each other only to take input and send output.
Lecture Learning Outcomes (LLOs): After completion of this lecture, you should be able to…
LLO1 Describe the TCP/IP layers and layers in OSI
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We use the concept of layers in our daily life. As an example, let us consider two friends
who communicate through postal mail. The process of sending a letter to a friend would
be complex if there were no services available from the post office.
In this section we briefly describe the functions of each layer in the OSI model.
The physical layer is responsible for movements of individual bits from one hop
(node) to the next.
The data link layer is responsible for moving frames from one hop (node) to the next.
The network layer is responsible for the delivery of individual packets from the source
host to the destination host.
The layers in the TCP/IP protocol suite do not exactly match those in the OSI model. The original
TCP/IP protocol suite was defined as having four layers: host-to-network, internet, transport,
and application. However, when TCP/IP is compared to OSI, we can say that the TCP/IP
protocol suite is made of five layers: physical, data link, network, transport, and application.