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Computer Network

Before looking inside a computer


network, first agree on what a
computer network is

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Computer network ?
Specialized to
handle:
 Set of serial lines to attach
terminals to mainframe ? Keystrokes
 Telephone network carrying
voice traffic ? Voice
 Cable network to disseminate
video signals ? Video

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What distinguishes a
Computer network ?

 Generality
 Built from general purpose
programmable hardware
 Supports wide range of applications

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Information, Computers, Networks

 Information: anything that is represented in bits


 Form (can be represented as bits) vs
 Substance (cannot be represented as bits)
 Properties:
 Infinitely replicable
 Computers can “manipulate” information
 Networks create “access” to information

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Networks

 Potential of networking:
 move bits everywhere, cheaply, and with desired
performance characteristics
 Network provides “connectivity”

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What is “Connectivity” ?
 Direct or indirect access to every other node in the
network

 Connectivity is the magic needed to communicate if


you do not have a direct pt-pt physical link.
 Tradeoff: Performance characteristics worse than true physical
link!

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Building Blocks

 Nodes: PC, special-purpose hardware…


 hosts
 switches

 Links: coax cable, optical fiber…


 point-to-point

…
 multiple access

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Why not connect each node
with every other node ?
 Number of computers that can be
connected becomes very limited
 Number of wires coming out of each
node becomes unmanageable
 Amount of physical hardware/devices
required becomes very expensive
 Solution: indirect connectivity using
intermediate data forwarding nodes

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Switched Networks
 A network can be defined recursively as...

 two or more nodes


connected by a link
 white nodes
(switches) implement
the network
 colored nodes (hosts)
use the network

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Switched Networks
 A network can be defined recursively as...
 two or more networks
connected by one or more
nodes: internetworks
 white nodes (router or
gateway) interconnects
the networks
 a cloud denotes “any
type of independent
network”

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A Network

A network can be defined recursively as

two or more nodes connected by a


physical link
Or
two or more networks connected by one or
more nodes

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Switching Strategies
 Circuit switching: • Packet switching: store-
carry bit streams and-forward messages
a. establishes a dedicated a. operates on discrete
circuit blocks of data
b. links reserved for use
by communication
b. utilizes resources
channel according to traffic
demand
c. send/receive bit stream
at constant rate c. send/receive messages
d. example: original at variable rate
telephone network d. example: Internet

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What next ?

 Hosts are directly or indirectly connected to


each other
 Can we now provide host-host connectivity ?
 Nodes must be able to say which host it
wants to communicate with

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Addressing and Routing

 Address: byte-string that identifies a node


 usually unique
 Routing: forwarding decisions
 process of determining how to forward messages
to the destination node based on its address
 Types of addresses
 unicast: node-specific
 broadcast: all nodes on the network
 multicast: some subset of nodes on the network

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Wrap-up

 A network can be constructed from


nesting of networks

 An address is required for each node


that is reachable on the network

 Address is used to route messages


toward appropriate destination

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What next ?

 Hosts know how to reach other hosts on


the network
 How should a node use the network for
its communication ?

 All pairs of hosts should have the ability


to exchange messages: cost-effective
resource sharing for efficiency

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Multiplexing
 Physical links and nodes are shared among users
 (synchronous) Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM)
 Frequency-Division Multiplexing (FDM)
L1 R1

L2 R2
Multiple flows
on a single link
Switch 1 Switch 2
L3 R3

Do you see any problem with TDM / FDM ?

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What Goes Wrong in the Network?

Reliability at stake

 Bit-level errors (electrical interference)


 Packet-level errors (congestion)
 distinction between lost and late packet
 Link and node failures
 distinction between broken and flaky link
 distinction between failed and slow node

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What Goes Undesirable in the
Network?
Required performance at stake

 Messages are delayed


 Messages are delivered out-of-order
 Third parties eavesdrop

 The challenge is to fill the gap between


application expectations and hardware
capabilities
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Research areas in Networking

 Routing
 Security
 Ad-hoc networks
 Wireless networks
 Protocols
 Quality of Service
 …

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Readings
 Chapter 1: 1.1, 1.2
 Computer Networks, A Systems Approach
L. Peterson & Davie

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