Data Communication Networks Introduction

M. R. Pakravan Department of Electrical Engineering Sharif University of Technology

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Introduction

The course introduces the underlying concepts and principles of data networks. It presents different components of a network and how these components fit together. The layers of functionalities implemented in network nodes are investigated and the underlying design concepts are discussed. The course is designed at a graduate level with practical assignments and short projects

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General Information

Lecturer: Mohammad Reza Pakravan Contact info:

E-mail: pakravan@sharif.edu Office: Room 605 Office Phone: 6616-5922 Sunday /Tuesday, 13:30 -15:00, EE-201

Course Schedule and Location:

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Text References

Required Textbook

Andrew Tanenbaum. Computer Networks, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall (ISBN 0-13-349945-6). W. Stallings. Data and Computer Communications. Prentice Hall. J. Walrand. Communication Networks: First Course. Aksen Associates. D. Comer. Internetworking with TCP/IP, Volume I, Prentice Hall. W. Stevens. TCP/IP Illustrated: The Protocols, Vol 1. Addison-Wesley. D. Comer. Computer Networks and Internets. Prentice Hall. L. Peterson and B. Davie. Computer Networks: A Systems Approach. Morgan Kaufman.

Additional textbooks and References

Some of the course material are presented from other sources

Course Outline

Introduction. The Physical Layer. The Data Link Layer. Multiple Access Protocols. The Network Layer. The Transport Layer. The Application Layer.

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Course load

Course work consists of

Following up on presented lectures Reading text book Learning how to use network simulation and modeling tools Preparing reports on course labs and assignments Course Labs and Assignments: 30% Midterm:30% Final: 40%
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Grading Policy

Brief History of Data Networks

1961-1964 Idea of store and forward distributed communication in packet networks by L. Kleinrock, D. Watts and P. Baran

More suitable for computer communication More resilient to node failure

Creation of ARPANET in late 1960s

To build a network that withstands destruction of some of its nodes First Network started operation in 1969
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Example Networks

Development of TCP/IP in 1970s (V. Cerf) and its full deployment over ARPANET in 1981-83 Rapid expansion of ARPANET in 19701980s to include most key universities in USA and Europe NSFNET : U.S. National Science Foundation Network for Academia

First TCP/IP WAN early 1980s. Three generations of networks were developed in a ten year time frame Key factor in rapid development of US in ICT sector

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Internet: Connection of ARPANET and NSFNET in 1983.

Millions of hosts, many more users Size doubling every year

Early important applications of internet: E-mail, FTP, Telnet, News Application that changed internet: Web Browsing (World Wide Web) developed in 1990 in CERN New Applications

Chat VoIP Multimedia streaming E-commerce Peer to Peer file sharing Many more

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Network Expansion

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Global Usage of Internet

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Global Usage of Internet

Source: International Telecommunication Union (2010)

Computer networks

Old: Single powerful computer, many local terminals for interaction

Now: Many autonomous computers interconnected to do the job

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Applications of Computer Networks

Business Applications:

Resource sharing (Programs, equipment, information) Communication medium (E-mail, Video-conference) E-commerce (Business to Business, Business to Customer) Access to remote information Person to person communication (E-mail, chat, peer to peer..) Interactive Entertainment E-commerce
Portable office (access to internet, E-mail, information, etc) Access to information on the move Navigation and maps

Home Applications

Mobile Applications:

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Networking Hardware

Broadcast

Single channel shared by all parties All receivers listen to each and every message and use the one intended for them Used for smaller networks Data sent by a source, received by some users Application in video conferencing, collaboration, live video broadcast Many connections between pairs Multiple roots between source and destination Used for larger networks

Multicast

Point to point

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Network Hardware

LAN (Local Area Network)

Network usually within a building Restricted Size, delay Rate: 10Mbps to 10Gbps Topology: Bus, Ring or point to point Channel allocation: Static or dynamic Examples: Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), A network within a city Examples: Cable TV network A network with large area Example: Backbone optical transmission network of a country
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MAN (Metropolitan Area Network)

WAN (Wide Area Network)

Typical Network Elements

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Network Hardware (By Technology)

Wireless Networks Mobile Networks Satellite Networks Wireline Networks PSTN Networks Microwave Radio Networks Optical Networks Access Networks Home Networks P2P Networks Many more

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Network Operation Principles

Functionality of most networks are organized as a series of layers Each layer is implemented by an entity Peers: two communicating entities (within the same layer)

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Network Software

Network architecture:

set of layers and protocols An agreement on rules and procedures between two communicating parties on how the communications is to proceed. list of protocols, one per layer

Protocol:

Protocol stack:

Interface:
Primitive operations and services offered by the lower layers to the higher layers Having Layers => Much simpler, more manageable and more flexible implementation of the network architecture

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Examples of Layer Design Issues

Addressing: specifying source and destination Data transfer rules

simplex / half-duplex / duplex logical channels per connection priorities, e.g. one normal and one urgent channel detection / correction / retransmission

Error control

Packet order and sequencing Flow control

regulate traffic; avoid overflow Message length: cannot be arbitrary long (re)assembly needed ! Multiplexing multiple paths

Routing

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Interfaces and Services

Relation between layers at an interface

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Service Categories and Reliability

Service Categories:

Service Reliability

Connection oriented

Reliable: never loose data

Phone conversation Telnet / remote login / FTP

Acknowledgements / retransmission No acknowledgements Datagram service

Connectionless

Unreliable: data may be lost

Postal system Email

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Services versus Protocols

Service = set of primitives (operations) that a layer provides to the above layer Protocol = set of rules implementing a service Protocol concerns format, meaning of frames / packets /messages A protocol may be changed without changing the service Service primitives 1. CONNECT. request 2. CONNECT. indication 3. CONNECT. response 4. CONNECT. confirm 5. DATA. request 6. DATA. indication 7. DISCONNECT. request 8. DISCONNECT. Indication CONNECT:

confirmed service response required

DISCONNECT: unconfirmed service

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Open System Interconnect (OSI) Reference Model

Model has 7 layers

A model which tells what each layer should do, not how it should be done! Transmission of raw bits ( 0/1 encoding ) Relevant aspects are: voltage, bit rate, Channel characteristics (Electrical)

Physical layer

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OSI Reference Model

Data link layer

Transport of frames (of bits) Reliable transmission Flow control Broadcast networks: channel sharing ( medium access sublayer ) Transport of packets Controlling the subnet Routing: static or dynamic Congestion control Connect heterogeneous networks
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Network layer

OSI Reference Model

Transport layer

Connection management End-to-end layer, from source to destination Split data stream in packets In-order delivery of packets (if network does not guarantee this) Establish and delete connections across the network Usually a unique connection is created for each required transport connection. However it may use 1-n or n-1 mappings Flow control

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OSI Reference Model

Session layer

Session management : dialogue control, synchronization after crash Concerned with syntax and semantics of transmitted information Commonly needed application protocols Examples: File transfer, E-mail

Presentation layer

Application layer

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TCP/IP Reference Model

Originated from ARPA NET Connecting many USA Universities and government institutes using leased telephone lines Internet layer is the most important layer IP: internet protocol

Connectionless Packet-switching (Possible out-of-order delivery )

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TCP/IP Reference Model

Transport layer

End-to-end communication TCP: transmission control protocol

Reliable Connection-oriented Flow control Sequencing Fragments byte stream into IP messages Unreliable Connectionless No sequencing and flow control often used for one shot communication: e.g. booting

UDP : user datagram protocol

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TCP/IP Reference Model

Application layer

TELNET: virtual terminal FTP: file transfer protocol SMTP: simple mail transfer protocol DNS: domain name service NNTP: network news transfer protocol HTTP: hypertext transfer protocol SNMP: simple network management protocol

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Comparing OSI and TCP/IP

OSI:

Top-down design methodology The concepts clearly distinguishes

Services (specification) Interfaces Protocols (implementation)

Network layer supports both connectionless and connection-oriented communication Transport layer supports only connection-oriented service !! Bottom-up approach; grew out of practice Not a general protocol stack Host-to-network layer is actually an interface description

TCP / IP

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Critics on OSI model

Bad timing. Bad technology.

Too many layers (Competition with 7 layer IBM SNA! stack) Overloaded (L2, L1) and empty (L5, L6) layers Too difficult to understand and implement Initially ignored connectionless protocols Early implementations were huge, unwieldy, and slow. TCP/IP as part of UNIX, widely available, useful and open OSI as a creature of telecom ministers/big telecom companies

Bad implementations.

Bad politics

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Model of Choice

We will follow a hybrid, 5-layer model in this course Data Link Layer includes Multiple Access Control (MAC) functionalities, but noting the importance of MAC, we will devote a special section to it.

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Internet Architecture

ISP: Provide Connectivity (DSL, Dialup, Cable, FTTH, 3G, etc) ISP Routes data internally (Its own backbone) or through its interconnection with other ISPs (Peering at IXP) to the Data Centers that Host the desired services

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A partial map of the Internet, rendered based on ping delay and colored based on Top Level Domains Data Networks Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_1024.jpg

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Local Area Networks: Wireless LAN

Idea: Allow wireless communication for

Access to backbone networks Ad Hoc peer to peer communication

Most famous standard: IEEE 802.11 series First developments in 1997 with 1Mbps or 2Mbps speed Newer generation: 802.11g working at 54 Mbps and 802.11n working at up to 450 Mbps

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Objects that can be used for many purposes such as identification and tracking RFID Reader interacts with RFID tags to send data to them and read data from them using radio waves RFID can be passive or active Networking issues such as addressing and multiple access control should be considered

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Sensor Networks

Many nodes that sense environmental conditions (temperature, sound, movement, etc) and report the data back to a central location Nodes should collaborate with each other to route the data properly Many key networking issues such as multiple access control and routing should be properly considered

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Standardization: Whos Who

Telecommunication world

ITU: International Telecommunication Union ISO: Int. Organization for Standardization (1946) ANSI: American National Standards Institute IEEE: Inst. of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IAB: Internet Activities Board IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force IRTF: Internet Research Task Force

International standards

Internet

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Local Area Networks: Ethernet

Ethernet:

Originally Developed by Metcalfe in 1976 at Xerox to connect computers Initial standard by Xerox, Intel and DEC in 1978; standardized by IEEE as 802.3 in 1983 Evolved from original 3 Mbps to 100 Gbps Dominant LAN technology, moving to MAN applications

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