Chapter 1

Introduction

Introduction

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Definition
What is a Computer Network
Interconnected Collection of autonomous Computers
Computer Networks are Ubiquitous
Cellular telephones
Cyber cafes
Home networks
Networked PCs in the office
Networked cars
Networked environmental sensors
Interplanetary Internet

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Chapter 1: Introduction
Our goal:

Overview:

Introduce basic

whats the Internet

terminology and
concepts
Pieces of Computer
Network
more depth, detail
later in course
approach:
use Internet as
example

whats a protocol?
network edge
network core
access net, physical media
Internet/ISP structure
performance: loss, delay
network modeling (Quantitative

Models)-transmission, propagation and

queuing delays

protocol layers, service models

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Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 What is the Internet?
1.2 Network edge
1.3 Network core
1.4 Network access and physical media
1.5 Internet structure and ISPs
1.6 Delay & loss in packet-switched networks
1.7 Protocol layers, service models

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Whats the Internet

Public Internet a specific computer network
Definition of Internet
Internet is a network of networks
Two views
Nuts and bolts view of the Internet
Basic hardware and software components that make up the Internet

Service View of the Internet

Describe the Internet in terms of a Networking Infrastructure that provides services to
distributed applications

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Whats the Internet: nuts and bolts view

millions of connected

computing devices (hosts

= end systems ):

Traditional
nontraditional

router
server

workstation
mobile

local ISP

network apps
communication links
running

Physical coaxial, twistedpair, fiber, copper

Wireless - radio, satellite
transmission rate (bps) =
bandwidth

Packet switches: forward

packets (chunks of data)

regional ISP

company
network
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Whats the Internet: nuts and bolts view (2)

Packet the chunk of
information
Types of packet switches

routers: forward packets

(chunks of data)
Link layer switches

router
server

mobile

local ISP

Route or Path
Packet switching

regional ISP

workstation

End systems share a path

or parts of a path, at the
same time
company
network
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Whats the Internet: nuts and bolts view (3)

The first packet switched

networks, created in 1970s,

are the earliest ancestors of
todays Internet.

ISP

router
server

workstation
mobile

local ISP

Each ISP is a network of

packet switches and
communication links.
Residential ISPs local
telephone company,
corporate ISPs, university
ISPs, other ISPs

regional ISP

company
network
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Whats the Internet: nuts and bolts view (4)

Services provided by ISP

Dialup
Broadband(cable/DSL)
High speed LAN access
Wireless Access
Internet access to content
providers (Connecting web
sites directly to the
Internet)

router
server

workstation
mobile

local ISP

regional ISP

Tier of ISP

Lower tier ISPs

National and international
upper tier ISPs

company
network
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Whats the Internet: nuts and bolts view (5)

protocols control sending,

receiving of msgs

Internet: network of
networks

e.g., TCP, IP, HTTP, FTP, PPP

router
server

workstation
mobile

local ISP

loosely hierarchical
public Internet versus
private intranet (firewall)

regional ISP

Internet standards

IETF: Internet Engineering Task

Force

RFC: Request for comments

IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards

company
network
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Whats the Internet: a service view

communication
infrastructure enables
distributed applications:

Web, email, games, ecommerce, file sharing

communication services

provided to apps:

connection-oriented reliable
Reliable

Connectionless unreliable
No guarantees

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Whats the Internet: a service view (2)

Currently, the Internet does

not provide a service that

makes promises about:

How long it will take to deliver

the data from sender to
receiver
Increase the access
transmission rate

Advances in the nuts and bolts

components of the Internet

are being driven by the needs
of new applications

Internet is an infrastructure
in which new applications are
being constantly invented and
deployed
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Whats a protocol?
human protocols:
What do we do when
we want to ask
someone for the time
of day?
whats the time?
I have a question
introductions
specific msgs sent
specific actions taken
when msgs received, or
other events

Hi
Hi
Got the
time?

2:00

time

If people run different protocols

time
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Whats a protocol? (2)

network protocols:
machines rather than
humans
all communication
activity in Internet
governed by protocols

H/W implemented
protocols in the NIC
Congestion control
protocols in end
systems
Protocols in routers

TCP connection
req
TCP connection
response
Get http://www.awl.com/kurose-ross

<file>

time

time
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Whats a protocol? (3)

Example of network
protocols:
What happens when you
make a request to a web
server.

Web client

Web server

TCP connection
req
TCP connection
response
Get http://www.awl.com/kurose-ross

<file>

time

time
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Whats a protocol? (4)

a human protocol and a computer network protocol:
Hi

TCP connection
req

Hi

TCP connection
response

Got the
time?

Get http://www.awl.com/kurose-ross

2:00

<file>
time

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Whats a protocol? (5)

A protocol defines the format and the order of
msgs

exchanged

between

two

or

more

communicating entities, as well as the actions

taken on the transmission and/or receipt of a
message or other event.

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Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 What is the Internet?
1.2 Network edge
1.3 Network core
1.4 Network access and physical media
1.5 Internet structure and ISPs
1.6 Delay & loss in packet-switched networks
1.7 Protocol layers, service models

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A closer look at network structure:

network edge: applications

and hosts
network core:

routers
network of networks

access networks, physical

media: communication links

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The network edge:

end systems (hosts):

Computers connected to the

Internet
The Internets end systems
include

Desktop computers
Servers
Mobile computers
Other devices
Thin clients
Household appliances etc.

Hosts - run application programs

e.g. Web, email

at edge of network
Hosts client and server
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The network edge (2):

client/server model (In

the conetext of
networking software)

client host requests, receives

service from always-on server
e.g. Web browser/server;
email client/server
Client server application are
distributed applications
Routers, links and other nuts
and bolts of the Internet
serve as a black box.
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The network edge (3):

peer-peer model:

Not pure client programs

interacting with not pure
server program
minimal (or no) use of
dedicated servers
Popular P2P file sharing
application e.g. KaZaA

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Network edge: Services

End systems use the Internet to communicate with

each other.
What are the characteristics of the communication
services that the Internet provides to its end
systems.
TCP/IP networks and in particular the Internet,
provide two types of services to end-systems
applications:

Connection-oriented service
Connectionless service

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Network edge: connection-oriented service

Connection establishment, Data transfer, Connection release

Goal: data transfer

between end systems

handshaking: setup
(prepare for) data
transfer ahead of time

Hello, hello back human

protocol
set up state in two
communicating hosts

TCP - Transmission

Control Protocol

Internets connectionoriented service

TCP service [RFC 793]

reliable, in-order bytestream data transfer

flow control:

loss: acknowledgements
and retransmissions
sender wont overwhelm
receiver

congestion control:

senders slow down sending

rate when network
congested
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Network edge: connectionless service

Goal: data transfer

between end systems

same as before!

No handshaking

Data can be delivered

sooner/faster,
Transaction-oriented
applications

UDP - User Datagram

Protocol [RFC 768]:

connectionless
unreliable data transfer
no flow control
no congestion control

Apps using TCP:

HTTP (Web), FTP (file

transfer), Telnet
(remote login), SMTP
(email)

Apps using UDP:

streaming media,

teleconferencing, DNS,
Internet telephony
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Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 What is the Internet?
1.2 Network edge
1.3 Network core
1.4 Network access and physical media
1.5 Internet structure and ISPs
1.6 Delay & loss in packet-switched networks
1.7 Protocol layers, service models

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The Network Core

Definition - mesh of
interconnected routers
Two fundamental
approaches to building a
network core

the fundamental question:

how is data transferred
through net?
circuit switching:
dedicated circuit per
call: telephone net
packet-switching: data
sent thru net in discrete
chunks
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The Network Core (2)

Analogy

Consider two restaurants

One, that requires reservations
Another, that neither requires reservations nor accepts them

Example of Circuit Switched networks Telephone

Networks
Example of Packet Switched Networks Internet
Not all telecommunication networks can be neatly
classified as pure circuit-switched networks or pure
packet-switched networks

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Network Core: Circuit Switching

End-end resources
reserved for call
link bandwidth, switch

capacity
dedicated resources:
no sharing
circuit-like
(guaranteed)
performance
call setup required

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Network Core: Circuit Switching

network resources
(e.g., bandwidth)
divided into pieces
pieces allocated to calls

idle if
not used by owning call
(no sharing)

resource piece

dividing link bandwidth

into pieces
frequency division
Ex telephone
networks, FM
radio stations
time division

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Circuit Switching: FDM and TDM

Example:

FDM

4 users
frequency
time

TDM

frequency
time

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Numerical example
How long does it take to send a file of

640,000 bits from host A to host B over a

circuit-switched network?
All links are 1.536 Mbps
Each link uses TDM with 24 slots
500 msec to establish end-to-end circuit

Work it out!

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Network Core: Packet Switching

each end-end data stream
(messages) divided into packets
travel through packet switches in
store-and-forward fashion
user A, B packets share network
resources
each packet uses full link
bandwidth
resources used as needed

Bandwidth division into pieces

Dedicated allocation
Resource reservation

resource contention:
aggregate resource
demand can exceed
amount available
congestion: packets
queue, wait for link use
store and forward:
packets move one hop
at a time

Node receives complete

packet before forwarding

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Network Core: Packet Switching (2)

Store-and-forward delay
Store-and-forward packet switches introduce a store
and-forward delay
This delay is proportional to the packets length in bits.
In particular
o If a packet consists of L bits and
o The packet is to be forwarded onto an outbound link of R bps,
o Then store-and-forward delay at the switch is L/R seconds

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Network Core: Packet Switching (3)

Queuing delays
For each attached link, the packet switch has an output
buffer (output queue)
The output queue stores the packets
Packets may suffer output buffer queuing delays.
These delays are variable and depend on the level of
congestion in the network
Finite buffer space
Packet loss

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Packet Switching: A Simple PacketSwitched Network

10 Mb/s
Ethernet

A
B

statistical multiplexing

1.5 Mb/s
queue of packets
waiting for output
link

Congestion if the arrival rate of packets to the

switch exceeds the rate at which the switch can
forward packets across the 1.5 Mbps output link.
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Packet Switching:

L
A

How long it takes to send a packet of L bits from

one host to another across a packet switched

network

Let us suppose that there are Q links between A and E,

each of rate R bps.
Assume that queuing delays and end-to-end propagation
delays are negligible and that there is no connection
establishment.
The packet must first be transmitted onto the first link
emanating from host A; this takes L/R seconds.
It must then be transmitted on each of the Q 1
remaining links, that is, it must be stored-and-forwarded
Q 1 times.
Thus the total delay is QL/R.
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Packet-switching: store-and-forward
L
R

Takes L/R seconds to

transmit (push out)

packet of L bits on to
link or R bps
Entire packet must
arrive at router before
it can be transmitted
on next link: store and
forward
delay = 3L/R

Example:
L = 7.5 Mbits
R = 1.5 Mbps
delay = 15 sec

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Packet switching versus circuit switching

Packet switching is not suitable for real-time

services

For example telephone calls, video conference calls

This is due to its variable and unpredictable end-to-end
delays
Due primarily to variable and unpredictable queuing delays

Proponents of packet switching argue that

It offers better sharing of bandwidth than circuit
switching.
It is simpler, more efficient and less costly to implement
than circuit switching.

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Packet switching versus circuit switching (2)

Why is packet switching more efficient?
It allows more users to use network.
Great for bursty data
resource sharing
simpler, no call setup allocates link use on demand

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Packet switching versus circuit switching (3)

Why is packet switching more efficient?
It allows more users to use network!
1 Mb/s link
each user:

100 kb/s when

active
active 10% of time
Inactive 90% of
time, transmitting
no data

N users
1 Mbps link

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Packet switching versus circuit switching (4)

Why is packet switching more efficient?
It allows more users to use network!
circuit-switching:

100 kbps must be

reserved for each user
at all times.
Eg., with circuitswitched TDM, if a
one-second frame is
divided into 10 time
slots of 100 ms each,
then each user would
be allocated one time
slot per frame.
The link can support
only 10 simultaneous
users
(1
mbps/100kbps)

N users
1 Mbps link

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Packet switching versus circuit switching (5)

Why is packet switching more efficient?
It allows more users to use network!
packet switching:

with 35 users, probability > 10 active less than .0004

The probability that a specific user is active is 0.1 (i.e. 10 percent)
The probability that at any given time , exactly n users are
transmitting simultaneously =
The probability that at any given time , exactly 10 users are
transmitting simultaneously =
The probability that there are 11 or more users transmitting
simultaneously =
= 0.0004
When there are 10 or fewer simultaneously active users, the
probability = 1 - 0.0004 = 0.9996 , the aggregate arrival rate of data
is less than or equal to 1 Mbps.

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Packet switching versus circuit switching (6)

Great for bursty data
Example - Assume 1mbps link rate

Suppose there are 10 users and that user one suddenly generates
one thousand 1000-bit packets, while other users remain idle and
do not generate packets.
Circuit switching
With TDM circuit switching with 10 slots per frame and each slot consisting of
1000 bits, the active user can only use its one time slot per frame to transmit
data, while the remaining nine slots in each frame remain idle.
It will be 10 seconds before all of the active users one million bits of data has
been transmitted.

Packet switching
The active user can continuously send its packets at the full link rate of 1 mbps,
since there are no other users generating packets that need to be multiplexed
with the active users packets.
All of the active users data will be transmitted within 1 second.

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Packet switching versus circuit switching (7)

resource sharing
simpler, no call setup allocates link use on

demand

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Packet Switching: Statistical Multiplexing

Circuit switching
Preallocates use of the transmission link
regardless of demand, with allocated but
unneeded link time going unused.
Packet switching

Allocates link use on demand

Link transmission capacity will be shared on a
packet-by-packet basis only among those users
who have packets that need to be transmitted
over the link.

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Packet Switching: Statistical Multiplexing (2)

Statistical multiplexing
Such on-demand (rather than preallocated)
sharing of resources is referred to as the
statistical multiplexing of resources.

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Packet Switching: Statistical Multiplexing (3)

10 Mb/s
Ethernet

A
B

statistical multiplexing

1.5 Mb/s
queue of packets
waiting for output
link

Sequence of A & B packets does not have fixed

pattern statistical multiplexing.
In TDM each host gets same slot in revolving TDM
frame.
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Packet-switched networks: forwarding

Goal: move packets through routers from source to

destination

well study several path selection (i.e. routing) algorithms

datagram network:

destination address in packet determines next hop, forwarding

table, Analogous to car driver who does not use maps
Ex: Routers in the Internet, Analogous to Postal Service
Do not maintain connection state information in their switches
routes may change during session
analogy: driving, asking directions

virtual circuit network:

each packet carries tag (virtual circuit ID), tag determines next
hop, Translation Table
Ex : X.25, frame relay, ATM
fixed path determined at call setup time, remains fixed thru call
routers maintain connection-state information
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Network Taxonomy
Telecommunication
networks

Circuit-switched
networks

FDM

TDM

Packet-switched
networks
Networks
with VCs

Datagram
Networks

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Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 What is the Internet?
1.2 Network edge
1.3 Network core
1.4 Network access and physical media
1.5 Internet structure and ISPs
1.6 Delay & loss in packet-switched networks
1.7 Protocol layers, service models

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Access networks and physical media

Access Networks:
The physical link(s) that

connect an end system to its

edge router, which is the
first router on a path from
the end system to any other
distant end system.

The access network provides

the infrastructure to
connect the customer
premises into the network
infrastructure.

Figure thick red lines

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Access networks and physical media

Q: How to connect end
systems to edge router?
residential access nets
Company/institutional
access networks (school,
company)
Wireless access mobile access networks
Keep in mind:
bandwidth (bits per
second) of access
network?
shared or dedicated?

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Residential access:
Dialup via modem
Broadband access technologies
DSL
HFC

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Residential access: Dialup

Dialup via modem

The access network is simply

a pair of modems along with a
point-to-point dial-up phone
line.
up to 56Kbps direct access to
router (often less)
Cant surf and phone at same
time: cant be always on

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Residential access: DSL

ADSL: asymmetric digital

subscriber line
Surf and phone at the same
time always on
Higher bit rates
up to 1 Mbps upstream (today typically < 256 kbps)
up to 8 Mbps downstream (today typically < 1 Mbps)
FDM: 50 kHz - 1 MHz for downstream
4 kHz - 50 kHz for upstream
0 kHz - 4 kHz for ordinary telephone

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Residential access: DSL (2)

The actual transmission rate available to the user is
a function of
The distance between the home modem and the
ISP modem
The gauge of the twisted pair line
The degree of electrical interference
DSL has been designed for short distances between
residential and ISP modems, allowing for higher
transmission rates than dial up access.

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Residential access: HFC

Extension of the current cable network (Figure)
Cable modems
HFC: hybrid fiber coax
asymmetric: up to 30Mbps downstream, 2 Mbps
upstream
Shared broadcast medium
Distributed multiple access protocol

network of cable and fiber attaches homes to

ISP router

homes share access to router

deployment: available via cable TV companies

Services always on
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Residential access: cable modems

Introduction

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Cable Network Architecture: Overview

Typically 500 to 5,000 homes

cable headend
cable distribution
network (simplified)

home

Introduction

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Cable Network Architecture: Overview

cable headend
cable distribution
network (simplified)

home

Introduction

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Cable Network Architecture: Overview

server(s)

cable headend
cable distribution
network

home

Introduction

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Cable Network Architecture: Overview

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cable distribution
network

home

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Company access: local area networks

company/univ local area

network (LAN) connects

end system to edge router
Ethernet:
shared or dedicated link
connects end system
and router
10 Mbps, 100Mbps,
Gigabit Ethernet

Twisted pair or coaxial cable

Shared vs Switched

LANs: chapter 5
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Wireless access networks

wireless access
network connects end system
to router

shared

via base station aka access

point

wireless LANs:
802.11b (WiFi): 11 Mbps
wider-area wireless access
provided by telco operator
3G ~ 384 kbps
Will it happen??
WAP/GPRS in Europe

router
base
station

mobile
hosts
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Home networks
Typical home network components:
ADSL or cable modem
router/firewall/NAT
Ethernet
wireless access
point
to/from
cable
headend

cable
modem

router/
firewall
Ethernet

wireless
laptops
wireless
access
point
Introduction

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Physical Media
Bit: propagates between

transmitter/rcvr pairs
physical link: what lies
between transmitter &
receiver
guided media:

signals propagate in solid

media: copper, fiber, coax

Twisted Pair (TP)

two insulated copper
wires

Category 3: traditional
phone wires, 10 Mbps
Ethernet
Category 5:
100Mbps Ethernet

unguided media:
signals propagate freely,
e.g., radio
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Physical Media : Twisted Pair

Twisted Pair (TP)
Least expensive, most commonly used, guided
Used by telephone networks
Construction

Two insulated copper wires

twisted to reduce electrical interference

Types STP & UTP

Data rates depends on
Thickness and distance between transmitter and receiver
UTP
Category 3: traditional phone wires, 10 Mbps Ethernet
Category 5:
100Mbps Ethernet
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Physical Media: coax

Coaxial cable:
two concentric copper conductors
High bit rates
bidirectional
baseband:
single channel on cable
legacy Ethernet
broadband:

multiple channel on cable

HFC

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Physical Media: fiber

Fiber optic cable:
glass fiber carrying light pulses, each pulse a bit
high-speed operation:
high-speed point-to-point transmission (e.g., 5 Gps)
low error rate: repeaters spaced far apart ; immune to

electromagnetic noise
Backbone of the Internet
High cost of optical devices transmitters, receivers and
switches

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Physical Media: Radio

Electromagnetic spectrum
Features
No physical wires,
can penetrate walls,
provide connectivity to mobile users
Carry signal for long distances
Characteristics of a radio channel depend upon
Propagation environment
distance

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Physical Media: Radio (2)

Environmental considerations determines
Path loss
Shadow fading
Multipath fading
Interference

Introduction

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Physical Media: Radio (3)

Types
Terrestrial
Satellite

Introduction

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Physical media: terrestrial

terrestrial microwave
e.g. up to 45 Mbps channels
Local area - LAN (e.g., Wifi)
2Mbps, 11Mbps
wide-area (e.g., cellular)

e.g. 3G: hundreds of kbps

satellite
up to 50Mbps channel (or multiple smaller channels)
270 msec end-end delay
geosynchronous versus low altitude

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Physical media: satellite

Ground stations and satellite
Two frequency bands
Repeaters
Rates (gbps)
Two types of satellites
geosynchronous versus low altitude
Geosynchronous
Stationary at 36000 kms
270 msec end-end delay
Backbone of telephone networks and Internet

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Physical media: satellite (2)

Low-altitude satellites
Closer to earth
Not stationary

Introduction

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Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 What is the Internet?
1.2 Network edge
1.3 Network core
1.4 Network access and physical media
1.5 Internet structure and ISPs
1.6 Delay & loss in packet-switched networks
1.7 Protocol layers, service models

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Internet structure: network of networks

End Systems connected through Access Networks
Internet is a network of networks
Tiered hierarchy of ISPs
at center: tier-1 ISPs Internet Backbone networks
national/international coverage
Link speeds 655 mbps or higher, 2.5 to 10 gbps
treat each other as equals
Tier-1 providers
Tier-1
providers
interconnect
(peer)
privately

Tier 1 ISP

Tier 1 ISP

NAP

also interconnect
at public network
access points
(NAPs)

Tier 1 ISP
POP Points
of Presence
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Tier-1 ISP: e.g., Sprint

Sprint US backbone network

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Internet structure: network of networks

Tier-2 ISPs: smaller (often regional or national) ISPs
Connect to one or more tier-1 ISPs, possibly other tier-2 ISPs

Tier-2

ISP pays
tier-1 ISP for
connectivity to
rest of Internet
tier-2 ISP is
customer of
tier-1 provider

Tier-2 ISP

Tier-2 ISP

Tier 1 ISP

Tier 1 ISP
Tier-2 ISP

NAP

Tier 1 ISP

Tier-2 ISPs
also peer
privately with
each other,
interconnect
at NAP
Tier-2 ISP

Tier-2 ISP
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Internet structure: network of networks

Tier-3 ISPs and local ISPs
last hop (access) network (closest to end systems)
local
ISP
Local and tier3 ISPs are
customers of
higher tier
ISPs
connecting
them to rest
of Internet

Tier 3
ISP
Tier-2 ISP

local
ISP

local
ISP

local
ISP
Tier-2 ISP

Tier 1 ISP

Tier 1 ISP

Tier-2 ISP
local
local
ISP
ISP

NAP

Tier 1 ISP
Tier-2 ISP
local
ISP

Tier-2 ISP
local
ISP
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Internet structure: network of networks

a packet passes through many networks!

local
ISP

Tier 3
ISP
Tier-2 ISP

local
ISP

local
ISP

local
ISP
Tier-2 ISP

Tier 1 ISP

Tier 1 ISP
Tier-2 ISP
local
local
ISP
ISP

NAP

Tier 1 ISP
Tier-2 ISP
local
ISP

Tier-2 ISP
local
ISP
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Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 What is the Internet?
1.2 Network edge
1.3 Network core
1.4 Network access and physical media
1.5 Internet structure and ISPs
1.6 Delay & loss in packet-switched networks
1.7 Protocol layers, service models
1.8 History
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Introduction
What can happen to a
packet as it travels
from its source to its
destination?

router
server

workstation
mobile

local ISP

Types of delays
Nodal processing delay
Queuing delay
Transmission delay
Propagation delay
Total Nodal Delay

regional ISP

company
network
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How do loss and delay occur?

packets queue in router buffers
packet arrival rate to link exceeds output link capacity
packets queue, wait for turn
packet being transmitted (delay)

R1

A
B

R2

packets queueing (delay)

free (available) buffers: arriving packets
dropped (loss) if no free buffers

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Four sources of packet delay

1. processing delay:

2. queueing delay

Time required to examine

the packets header and to
determine where to direct
the packet
Time needed to check bit
level errors
Microsecond or less

time waiting at output link

for transmission
variable
depends on queue/congestion
level of router
Microseconds to milliseconds

transmission

propagation

nodal
processing

queueing
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Delay in packet-switched networks

4. Propagation delay:

3. Transmission delay:
Amount of time required to

Time required to propagate from

push (that is, transmit) all of

the packets bits into the link.
R=link bandwidth (bps)
L=packet length (bits)
time to send bits into link =
L/R
Microseconds to milliseconds

R1

transmission

the beginning of the link to the

router R2 is the propagation delay
d = length of physical link
s = propagation speed in medium
(~2x108 m/sec)
propagation delay = d/s
milliseconds

Note: s and R are very

different quantities!

propagation

R2
B

nodal
processing

queueing

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Caravan analogy
100 km
ten-car
caravan

toll
booth

10 cars
Cars propagate at

100 km/hr
Toll booth takes 12 sec to
service a car (transmission
time)
car~bit; caravan ~ packet
Q: How long until caravan is
lined up before 2nd toll booth?

100 km
toll
booth

Time to push entire

caravan through toll booth

onto highway = 12*10 = 120
sec
Time for last car to
propagate from 1st to 2nd
toll booth: 100km/
(100km/hr)= 1 hr
A: 62 minutes
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Caravan analogy (more)

100 km
ten-car
caravan

toll
booth

Cars now propagate at

1000 km/hr
Toll booth now takes 1
min to service a car
Q: Will cars arrive to
2nd booth before all
cars serviced at 1st
booth?

100 km
toll
booth

Yes! After 7 min, 1st car

at 2nd booth and 3 cars

still at 1st booth.
1st bit of packet can
arrive at 2nd router
before packet is fully
transmitted at 1st router!

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Nodal delay
d nodal d proc d queue d trans d prop
Contribution of these delay components
dproc = processing delay

typically a few microsecs or less

Max throughput

dqueue = queuing delay

depends on congestion

dtrans = transmission delay

= L/R, significant for low-speed links

dprop = propagation delay

a few microsecs to hundreds of msecs

Two routers in same campus or through satellites
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Queueing delay (revisited)

Variable
Statistical measures

Average queuing delay

Variance of queuing delay
The probability that the queuing delay exceeds some specified value

When is queuing delay large and when it insignificant?

Rate at which traffic arrives at the queue

Transmission rate of the link
Nature of the arriving traffic (whether Bursty)

a=average packet arrival rate (packets/sec)

R=transmission rate i.e. link bandwidth (bps)
L=packet length (bits)
The average rate at which bits arrive at the queue=La bits/sec

Assume that the queue is very big

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Queueing delay (revisited) (2)

traffic intensity = La/R
La/R > 1: delays become large
La/R 1: nature of arriving

packets impacts the queuing delay

o Packets arrive periodically
o Packets arrive in bursts but

periodically
o Arrival process to a queue is random

La/R ~ 0: average queueing delay small

La/R ~ 1: average queuing delay gets larger
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Packet loss
queue (aka buffer) preceding link in buffer

has finite capacity

when packet arrives to full queue, packet is
dropped (aka lost)
The fraction of lost packets increases as
the traffic intensity increases
lost packet may be retransmitted by
previous node, by source end system, or not
retransmitted at all
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End-to-End Delay
Nodal delay
Delay from source to destination
Suppose
N-1 routers between source and destination
Network is uncongested
Queuing delay negligible

dproc = processing delay

R bps=transmission rate
dtrans =L/R

dprop = propagation delay

dend-end = N (dproc + dtrans + dprop )

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Real Internet delays and routes

What do real Internet delay & loss look like?
Traceroute program: provides delay measurement

from source to router along end-end Internet path

towards destination.
Source host sends multiple, special packets towards
the destination, these packets pass through a series
of routers.
When a router receives one of these special packets,
it sends a short message back to the source.
This message contains the name and address of the
routers.
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Real Internet delays and routes (2)

Example Reconstruct routes and determine Round

Trip delays

Suppose there are (N 1) routers between the source and

destination
Then the source will send N special packets into the network
(marked 1 through N)
When the nth router receives the nth packet marked n, the
router does not forward the packet towards its destination,
but instead sends a message back to the source
When the destination host receives the Nth packet, it too
returns a message back to the source
The source records the time that elapses between when it
sends a packets and when it receives the corresponding
return message; it also records name and address of the
router (or the destination host) that returns the message
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Real Internet delays and routes (3)

For all i:
sends three packets that will reach router i on path
towards destination
router i will return packets to sender
sender times interval between transmission and reply.

3 probes

3 probes

3 probes
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Real Internet delays and routes (4)

traceroute: gaia.cs.umass.edu to www.eurecom.fr
Three round trip delay measements from
gaia.cs.umass.edu to cs-gw.cs.umass.edu
1 cs-gw (128.119.240.254) 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms
2 border1-rt-fa5-1-0.gw.umass.edu (128.119.3.145) 1 ms 1 ms 2 ms
3 cht-vbns.gw.umass.edu (128.119.3.130) 6 ms 5 ms 5 ms
4 jn1-at1-0-0-19.wor.vbns.net (204.147.132.129) 16 ms 11 ms 13 ms
5 jn1-so7-0-0-0.wae.vbns.net (204.147.136.136) 21 ms 18 ms 18 ms
6 abilene-vbns.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.11.9) 22 ms 18 ms 22 ms
7 nycm-wash.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.46) 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms trans-oceanic
8 62.40.103.253 (62.40.103.253) 104 ms 109 ms 106 ms
link
9 de2-1.de1.de.geant.net (62.40.96.129) 109 ms 102 ms 104 ms
10 de.fr1.fr.geant.net (62.40.96.50) 113 ms 121 ms 114 ms
11 renater-gw.fr1.fr.geant.net (62.40.103.54) 112 ms 114 ms 112 ms
12 nio-n2.cssi.renater.fr (193.51.206.13) 111 ms 114 ms 116 ms
13 nice.cssi.renater.fr (195.220.98.102) 123 ms 125 ms 124 ms
14 r3t2-nice.cssi.renater.fr (195.220.98.110) 126 ms 126 ms 124 ms
15 eurecom-valbonne.r3t2.ft.net (193.48.50.54) 135 ms 128 ms 133 ms
16 194.214.211.25 (194.214.211.25) 126 ms 128 ms 126 ms
17 * * *
* means no reponse (probe lost, router not replying)
18 * * *
19 fantasia.eurecom.fr (193.55.113.142) 132 ms 128 ms 136 ms
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Chapter 1: roadmap
1.1 What is the Internet?
1.2 Network edge
1.3 Network core
1.4 Network access and physical media
1.5 Internet structure and ISPs
1.6 Delay & loss in packet-switched networks
1.7 Protocol layers, service models

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Protocol Layers
Networks are complex!
many pieces:
hosts
routers
links of various
media
applications
protocols
hardware,
software

Question:
Is there any hope of
organizing structure of
network?
Or at least our discussion of
networks?

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Organization of air travel (Airline System)

ticket (purchase)

ticket (complain)

baggage (check)

baggage (claim)

gates (load)

gates (unload)

runway takeoff

runway landing

airplane routing

airplane routing
airplane routing

a series of steps/actions
functionality
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Layering of airline functionality

ticket (purchase)

ticket (complain)

ticket

baggage (check)

baggage (claim

baggage

gates (load)

gates (unload)

gate

runway (takeoff)

runway (land)

takeoff/landing

airplane routing

airplane routing

airplane routing
departure
airport

airplane routing

airplane routing

intermediate air-traffic
control centers

arrival
airport

Layers: each layer implements a service

via its own internal-layer actions
relying on services provided by layer below
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Why layering?
Dealing with complex systems:
explicit structure allows identification,

relationship of complex systems pieces

layered reference model for discussion
modularization eases maintenance, updating of
system
change of implementation of layers service
transparent to rest of system
e.g., change in gate procedure doesnt affect
rest of system

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Drawback of layering?
One layer may duplicate lower layer functionality
For example, many protocol stacks provide error
recovery on both a link basis and an end-to-end basis.
Functionality at one layer may need information

that is present only in another layer; this violates

the goal of separation of layers.

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Internet protocol stack

When taken together, the protocols of
various layers are called the protocol stack
application: supporting network
applications

FTP, SMTP, HTTP, DNS

transport: host-host data transfer

TCP, UDP
network: routing of datagrams from

source to destination

IP, routing protocols

link: data transfer between neighboring

network elements

application
transport
network
link
physical

PPP, Ethernet

physical: bits on the wire

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source
message
segment Ht

datagram Hn Ht
frame Hl Hn Ht

M
M
M
M

Encapsulation

application
transport
network
link
physical

Hl Hn Ht

link
physical

Hl Hn Ht

switch

destination
M
Ht

Hn Ht

Hl Hn Ht

application
transport
network
link
physical

Hn Ht

Hl Hn Ht

network
link
physical

Hn Ht

Hl Hn Ht

router

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Introduction: Summary
Covered a ton of material!
Internet overview
whats a protocol?
network edge, core, access
network
packet-switching versus
circuit-switching
Internet/ISP structure
performance: loss, delay
layering and service
models
history

You now have:

context, overview,
feel of networking
more depth, detail to
follow!

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