Examen Flashcards
Protocol layering, packet switching, routing and data streaming are the principles on which:
Computer Networks are based
The computers and other devices that use the network for communication proposes are referred to as:
Hosts
This is the delay that occurs after a send operation is executed before data starts to arrive at the destination computer in network performance
Latency
This term is used to refer to any computer or switching device attached to a network
Node
This is the speed at which data can be transferred between two computers in the network once transmission has begun.
Data transfer rate
This is a single communication subsystem providing communication between all of the hosts that are connected to it, where the internet is constructed form many subnets.
The Internet
They carry messages at lower speeds between nodes that
are often in different organizations and may be separated by
large distances.
Wide Area Networks (WAN)
The end-to-end communication must provide totally errorfree; the detection of communication errors and their
correction is what we call:
Reliability
This is a sequence of binary data (an array of bits or bytes) of restricted length, together with addressing information
sufficient to identify the source and destination of computers
The simples form of packet
This is a unit of routing (delivering data from one part of the internet to another)
Subnet
This is a type of network is based on the high bandwidth copper and fiber optic cabling recently installed in some
towns and cities for the transmission of video, voice and other data over distances up to 50 kilometers.
Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)
This is defined as the ability to meet deadlines when transmitting and processing streams of real-time multimedia
data
Quality of service
This is a communication subsystem in which several networks are linked together to provide common data communication facilities that overlay the technologies and
protocols of the individual component networks and the methods used for the interconnection.
Internetworks
This is why many network technologies support the simultaneous transmission of messages to several recipients
Multicasting
The IEEE 802.16 WiMAX standard is targeted at this class of network. It aims to provide an alternative to wired connections to home and office buildings
Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs)
This is referred to as the transmission and display of audio and video in real time. It requires much higher bandwidths than most other forms of communication in distributed systems
Streaming
They are composed of a number of personal devices such as mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, music players and so on that are now carried by many people.
Wireless personal area networks
(WPANs)
They are generally used to hold the video frames, but because the flow is continuous as opposed to the intermittent traffic generated by typical client-server interactions and are handled somewhat differently
UDP internet packets
In this type of network, most mobile phone networks are based on digital wireless network technologies such as the GSM standard, which is used in most countries of the world
Wireless wide area networks (WWANs)
They are specifically designed to provide high bandwidth and low latencies and to support quality of service by the reservation of network resources.
ATM Networks
This is a transmission technique that involves no switching, everything is transmitted to every node, and it is up to
potential receivers to notice transmissions addressed to them.
Broadcasting
In this type of switching, each packet arriving at a node is first stored in memory at the node and then processed by a
program that transmit it on outgoing circuit, which transfers the packet to another node that is closer to its ultimate
destination.
Packet switching
Their operation was simple to understand, when a caller dialed a number, the pair of wires from her phone to the local exchange was connected by an automatic switch at the exchange to the pir of wires connected to the other party´s
phone.
Circuit switching
This is used to refer to a well-know set of rules and formats to be used for communication between processes in order to perform a given task
The term protocol
The task of dividing messages into packets before transmission and reassembling them at the receiving computer is usually performed in the transport layer.
Packet assembly
They are software-defined destinations points at a host computer. They are attached to a processes, enabling data
transmission to be addressed to a specific process at a destination node.
Ports
This is a numeric identifier that uniquely identifies a host
computer and enables it to be located by nodes that are
responsible for routing data to it.
A network address
When a pair of nodes connected to two separate networks
need to communicate through another type of network or
over an alien protocol, they can do so by constructing a
protocol under a scheme of:
Tunneling