Computer Networks Network Models
Computer Networks Network Models
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.
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ISO is the organization. OSI is the model.
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The physical layer is responsible for movements of individual bits from one hop (node) to the next.
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The data link layer is responsible for moving frames from one hop (node) to the next.
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The network layer is responsible for the delivery of individual packets from the source host to the destination host.
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The transport layer is responsible for the delivery of a message from one process to another.
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The session layer is responsible for dialog control and synchronization.
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The presentation layer is responsible for translation, compression, and encryption.
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The application layer is responsible for providing services to the user.
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2-5 ADDRESSING
Four levels of addresses are used in an internet employing the TCP/IP protocols: physical, logical, port, and specific.
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Example 2.1
In Figure 2.19 a node with physical address 10 sends a frame to a node with physical address 87. The two nodes are connected by a link (bus topology LAN). As the figure shows, the computer with physical address 10 is the sender, and the computer with physical address 87 is the receiver.
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Example 2.2
Most local-area networks use a 48-bit (6-byte) physical address written as 12 hexadecimal digits; every byte (2 hexadecimal digits) is separated by a colon, as shown below:
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A 6-byte (12 hexadecimal digits) physical address.
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Example 2.3
Figure 2.20 shows a part of an internet with two routers connecting three LANs. Each device (computer or router) has a pair of addresses (logical and physical) for each connection. In this case, each computer is connected to only one link and therefore has only one pair of addresses. Each router, however, is connected to three networks (only two are shown in the figure). So each router has three pairs of addresses, one for each connection.
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Example 2.4
Figure 2.21 shows two computers communicating via the Internet. The sending computer is running three processes at this time with port addresses a, b, and c. The receiving computer is running two processes at this time with port addresses j and k. Process a in the sending computer needs to communicate with process j in the receiving computer. Note that although physical addresses change from hop to hop, logical and port addresses remain the same from the source to destination.
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The physical addresses will change from hop to hop, but the logical addresses usually remain the same.
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Example 2.5
A port address is a 16-bit address represented by one decimal number as shown.
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A 16-bit port address represented as one single number.
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The physical addresses change from hop to hop, but the logical and port addresses usually remain the same.
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