A “Computer Network” is an interconnection of a group of computers. Networks may be Classified by what is called the network layer at which they operate according to basic reference models considered as standards in the industry such as the four-layer Internet Protocol Suite model. INTRODUCTION
On the basis of “ SCALE ” TYPES OF NETWORKS
A network covering a small geographic area, like a home, office, or building. Current LANs are most likely to be based on Ethernet technology. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS(LAN)
METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORK(MAN)
WIDE AREA NETWORK(WAN) A WAN is a data communications network that covers a relatively broad geographic area (i.e. one city to another and one country to another country) and that often uses transmission facilities provided by common carriers, such as telephone companies.
2.Based on “span”
THE INTERNET HISTORY Evolved from ARPANET, 1969 Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA),U.S. Department of Defense. Began in four locations: UCLA, University of Santa Barbara, the University of Utah, and SRI (Stanford Research Institute) “WWW “ was developed in Spring 1989, at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) by Tim Berners-Lee. Explosive growth came with first graphically oriented browser, Mosaic, 1993
NETWORK TOPOLOGY 1. BUS TOPLOGY Each node is daisy-chained (connected one right after the other) along the same backbone. Information sent from a node travels along the backbone until it reaches its destination node.
2.RING TOPOLOGY Similar to a bus network, rings have nodes daisy chained, but the end of the network in a ring topology comes back around to the first node, creating a complete circuit. Each node takes a turn sending and receiving information through the use of a token.
3.STAR TOPOLOGY In a star network, each node is connected to a central device called a hub. The hub takes a signal that comes from any node and passes it along to all the other nodes in the network.
BASIC TRANSMISSION MEDIA
THE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE File Transfer, Email, Remote Login ASCII Text, Sound (syntax layer) Establish/manage connection End-to-end control & error checking (ensure complete data transfer): TCP Routing and Logical Addressing: IP Two party communication: Ethernet How to transmit signal; coding Hardware means of sending and receiving data on a carrier THE OSI REFERENCE MODEL
THE TCP/IP ARCHITECTURE
ASSOCIATED TCP/IP PROTOCOLS & SERVICES
NETWORK SECURITY
TYPES OF ATTACKS ON A NETWORK
SIMPLIFIED MODEL OF SYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION Ingredients Plain text Encryption algorithm Secret key Ciphertext Decryption algorithm
PUBLIC-KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY THE RSA ALGORITHM Key Generation Select p , q p and q both prime, p q Calculate n = p ´ q Calculate f ( n ) = ( p – 1)( q – 1) Select integer gcd ( f ( n ), e ) = 1; 1 < e < f ( n ) Calculate d de mod f ( n ) = 1 Public key KU = { e , n } Private key KR = { d , n } Encryption Plaintext: M < n Cipher text: C = Me (mod n ) Decryption Cipher text: C Plaintext: M = Cd (mod n )
NETWORK MANAGEMENT
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTER NETWORKING 1.THE INTERNET GRID 2.THE GOOGLE WAVES Grid computing is the combination of computer resources from multiple administrative domains applied to a common task, usually to a scientific, technical or business problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or the need to process large amounts of data. Google Wave is It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking.