Parcial 2 Flashcards
Protocol layering, packet switching, routing and data streaming are the principies on wich
Computer Networks
The computers and other devices that use the network for communication purposes are refered to as
Host
This is the delay that occurs after a send operation is executed before dta stars 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 wich 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 host that are conected to it, where the internet is constructed from many subnets
The internet
The carry messages at lower speeds between nodes that are often in different organizations and may be separated by large distances
Wide area networks (WANs)
The end-to-end communication must provide totally error-free: the detection of communication errors and their correction is the we call
Reliability
This is a sequence of binary data (an array of bits or bytes) of restricted lenght, together with addressing information sufficient to identify the source and destination computers
The simplest form of packet
This is a unit of routing (delivering data from one part of the internet to another)
Subnet
This type of networks is based on the high bandwith copper and fiber optic cabling recently installed in some towns and cities for the transmission of video, voice and other data over distances of up to 50 kilometers
Metropolitan area networks (MANs)
This is defines as the ability to meet deadlines when transmission and processing streams of real-time multimedia data
Quality of services
This is a communication subsystem in which several networks are linked together to provide common data communication facilities that overlay yhe technologies and protocols of the individual component networks and the methods used to their interconnection
Internetworks
This is why many networks technologies support the simultaneous transmission of messages to several recipients
Multicasting
The IEEE 802.16 WIMAX standars 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 refered to as the transmission and display of audio and video in real time. It requires much higher handwidths than most other forms of communication in distribuited systems
Data 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 standar, which is used in most countries of the world
Wireless wide area networks (WWAN)
They are specially designed to provide high bandwidth and low latencies and to support quality of services by resrvation of network resources
ATM networks
This is 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
Broadcats
In this type of switching, each packet arriving at a node is first stored in memory at the node and then processed bya program that transmits it on a 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 pair of wires connectedthe 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 roder 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 ussually performed in the transport layer
Packet assembly
They are software-defined destination points at as host computer. They are attached to processes, enabling data transmission to be addressed to a specific process at a destination node
Port / 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 construcion a protocol under a scheme of
Tunnel / Tunneling