Chapter 1 (Part 1) : Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach
Chapter 1 (Part 1) : Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach
Chapter 1 (Part 1) : Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach
Introduction
Introduction 1-2
Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 what is the Internet?
1.2 network edge
end systems, access networks, links
1.3 network core
packet switching, circuit switching, network structure
1.4 delay, loss, throughput in networks
1.5 protocol layers, service models
1.6 networks under attack: security
1.7 history
Introduction 1-3
What’s the Internet: “ nuts and bolts” view
PC billions of connected computing mobile network
server devices:
wireless
• hosts = end systems global ISP
laptop • running network apps
smartphone
home
communication links network
regional ISP
wireless
• fiber, copper, radio,
links satellite
wired
links • transmission rate:
bandwidth
Introduction 1-4
What’s the Internet: “ nuts and bolts” view
mobile network
Internet: “ network of networks”
• Interconnected ISPs
global ISP
protocols control sending,
receiving of messages
• e.g., TCP, IP, HTTP, 802.11 home
network
Internet standards regional ISP
• RFC: Request for comments
• IETF: Internet Engineering Task
Force
institutional
network
Introduction 1-5
What’s the Internet: a service view
mobile network
infrastructure that provides
services to applications: global ISP
Introduction 1-6
What’s a protocol?
human protocols: network protocols:
“ what’s the time?” machines rather than
“ I have a question” humans
introductions all communication activity
in Internet governed by
protocols
… specific messages sent
… specific actions taken
when messages protocols define format, order
received, or other events of messages sent and received
among network entities, and
actions taken on message
transmission, receipt
Introduction 1-7
What’s a protocol?
a human protocol and a computer network protocol:
Hi TCP connection
request
Hi TCP connection
response
Got the
time? Get http://www.awl.com/kurose-ross
2:00
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time
Introduction 1-9
A closer look at network structure:
network edge: mobile network
home
access networks, physical network
regional ISP
media: wired, wireless
communication links
network core:
• interconnected routers
• network of networks institutional
network
Introduction 1-10
Access networks and physical media
Q: How to connect end
systems to edge router?
residential access nets
institutional access
networks (school, company)
mobile access networks
keep in mind:
bandwidth (bits per second)
of access network?
shared or dedicated?
Introduction 1-11
Access network: digital subscriber line (DSL)
central office telephone
network
DSL splitter
modem DSLAM
ISP
voice, data transmitted
at different frequencies over DSL access
dedicated line to central office multiplexer
cable splitter
modem
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to/from headend or
central office
often combined
in single box
Introduction 1-15
Enterprise access networks (Ethernet)
institutional link to
ISP (Internet)
institutional router
Introduction 1-16
Wireless access networks
shared wireless access network connects end system to router
• via base station aka “ access point”
to Internet
to Internet
Introduction 1-17
Host: sends packets of data
host sending function:
takes application message
breaks into smaller chunks, two packets,
known as packets, of length L L bits each
bits
transmits packet into access
network at transmission rate R 2 1
• link transmission rate, R: link transmission rate
aka link capacity, aka host
link bandwidth
Introduction 1-19
Physical media: coax, fiber
coaxial cable: fiber optic cable:
two concentric copper glass fiber carrying light
conductors pulses, each pulse a bit
bidirectional high-speed operation:
broadband: • high-speed point-to-point
• multiple channels on cable transmission (e.g., 10’s-100’s
Gbps transmission rate)
• HFC (Hybrid-Fiber Coaxial
cable) low error rate:
• repeaters spaced far apart
• immune to electromagnetic noise
Introduction 1-20
Physical media: radio
signal carried in radio link types:
electromagnetic spectrum terrestrial microwave
no physical “ wire” • e.g. up to 45 Mbps channels
bidirectional WLAN (e.g., WiFi)
propagation environment • 54 Mbps
effects: wide-area (e.g., cellular)
• reflection • 4G cellular: ~ 10 Mbps
• obstruction by objects satellite
• interference • Kbps to 45Mbps channel (or
multiple smaller channels)
• 270 msec end-end delay
Introduction 1-21
Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 what is the Internet?
1.2 network edge
end systems, access networks, links
1.3 network core
packet switching, circuit switching, network structure
1.4 delay, loss, throughput in networks
1.5 protocol layers, service models
1.6 networks under attack: security
1.7 history
Introduction 1-22
The network core
mesh of interconnected routers
packet-switching: hosts break
application-layer messages into
packets
• forward packets from one router to
the next, across links on path from
source to destination
• each packet transmitted at full link
capacity
Introduction 1-23
Packet-switching: store-and-forward
L bits
per packet
3 2 1
source destination
R bps R bps
R = 100 Mb/s C
A
D
R = 1.5 Mb/s
B
queue of packets E
waiting for output link
Introduction 1-25
Two key network-core functions
routing: determines source-
destination route taken by forwarding: move packets
packets from router’s input to
routing algorithms appropriate router output
routing algorithm
Introduction 1-27
Circuit switching: FDM versus TDM
Example:
FDM
4 users
frequency
time
TDM
frequency
time
Introduction 1-28
Packet switching versus circuit switching
Packet switching
great for bursty data
• resource sharing
• simpler, no call setup
excessive congestion possible: packet delay and loss
• protocols needed for reliable data transfer, congestion control
Q: How to provide circuit-like behavior?
• bandwidth guarantees needed for audio/video apps
• still an unsolved problem (chapter 7)
Introduction 1-30
Packet switching versus circuit switching
Introduction 1-31
Internet structure: network of networks
End systems connect to Internet via access ISPs (Internet
Service Providers)
• residential, company and university ISPs
Access ISPs in turn must be interconnected.
• so that any two hosts can send packets to each other
Resulting network of networks is very complex
• evolution was driven by economics and national policies
Let’s take a stepwise approach to describe current Internet
structure
Introduction 1-32
Internet structure: network of networks
Question: given millions of access ISPs, how to connect them
together?
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Introduction 1-33
Internet structure: network of networks
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Introduction 1-34
Internet structure: network of networks
Option: connect each access ISP to one global transit ISP?
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Introduction 1-35
Internet structure: network of networks
But if one global ISP is viable business, there will be competitors ….
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Introduction 1-36
Internet structure: network of networks
But if one global ISP is viable business, there will be competitors …. which
must be interconnected
IXP is a meeting point where multiple ISPs can peer together
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Introduction 1-37
Internet structure: network of networks
… and regional networks may arise to connect access nets to tier-1
ISPs
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Introduction 1-38
Internet structure: network of networks
… and content provider networks (e.g., Google, Microsoft, Akamai)
may run their own network, to bring services, content close to end users
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Introduction 1-39
Internet structure: network of networks
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Introduction 1-42
How do delay and loss occur?
packets queue in router buffers
packet arrival rate to link (temporarily) exceeds output link
capacity
packets queue, wait for turn
packet being transmitted (delay)
B
packets queueing (delay)
free (available) buffers: arriving packets
dropped (loss) if no free buffers
Introduction 1-43
Four sources of packet delay
transmission
A propagation
B
nodal
processing queueing
B
nodal
processing queueing