This article throws light upon the three main types of protocols. The types are: 1. Transmission Control Protocol 2. Internet Protocol 3. User Datagram Protocol. Type # 1. Transmission Control Protocol: Transmission Control Protocol or TCP is a transport layer protocol. Recall that while discussing the "layer cake" one of the layers in the OSI reference model was the transport [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the definition of protocols. The word protocol appears very frequently in any discussion about networking. While it has been used very frequently in the discussions, it has not been clearly explained. Almost all wide area networks utilise TCP/IP and they have become practically synonymous with Wide Area Networks. When we continue the [...]
This article throws light upon the top four issues caused by media access protocols. The issues are: 1. ALOHA 2. Slotted ALOHA 3. Carrier Sense Multiple Access 4. CSMA with Collision Detection. Issue # 1. ALOHA: ALOHA is the product of the thought process of Norman Abramson who, in the 1970s, along with his colleagues in the University of Hawaii, [...]