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Client-server architecture
server: always-on host permanent IP address server farms for scaling clients:
client/server

SMTP, POP3, IMAP
2.5 DNS
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Chapter 2: Application layer
2.1 Principles of
network applications 2.2 Web and HTTP 2.3 FTP 2.4 Electronic Mail
Note: applications with
P2P architectures have client processes & server processes
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Sockets: process/network interface
process sends/receives
Pure P2P architecture

no always-on server
arbitrary end systems
directly communicate peer-peer peers are intermittently connected and change IP addresses example: BitTorrent Highly scalable but difficult to manage (security)

2.6 P2P file sharing 2.7 Socket programming
SMTP, POP3, IMAP
2.5 DNS
with TCP 2.8 Socket programming with UDP 2.9 Building a Web server
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little software written for devices in network core

application transport network data link physical
network core devices do not run user applications applications on end systems allows for rapid app development, propagation


P2P file sharing


games streaming stored video clips voice over IP real-time video conferencing grid computing
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Chapter 2: Application layer
2.1 Principles of
network applications 2.2 Web and HTTP 2.3 FTP 2.4 Electronic Mail

2.6 P2P Applications 2.7 Socket programming
with TCP 2.8 Socket programming with UDP
application transport network data link physical
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Network Application architectures
How to structure application over various
end systems (vs. network architecture) Client-server Peer-to-peer (P2P) Hybrid of client-server and P2P
Internet
TCP with buffers, variables
controlled by OS
API: (1) choice of transport protocol; (2) ability to fix
a few parameters (lots more on this later)
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Processes Addressing
to receive messages,
process must have

identifier
host device has unique
32-bit IP address Q: does IP address of host on which process runs suffice for identifying the process? A: No, many processes can be running on same host analogy
IP address and port numbers associated with process on host. Example port numbers:

identifier includes both
HTTP server: 80 Mail server: 25
to send HTTP message to
eg: Web app.
communicate with server may be intermittently connected may have dynamic IP addresses do not communicate directly with each other
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Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach,
4th edition. Jim Kurose, Keith Ross Addison-Wesley, July 2007.
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Some network apps
e-mail remote login ftp web search engine electronic commerce instant messaging multi-user network
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Processes communicating
Process: program running within a host. within same host, two processes communicate using inter-process communication (defined by OS). processes in different hosts communicate by exchanging messages Net. App.: pairs of processesж, eg. Web, P2P Client process: process that initiates communication Server process: process that waits to be contacted
web server:

IP address: 202.112.144.31 Port number: 80
Chapter 2 Application Layer
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Creating a network app
write programs that

application transport network data link physical
run on (different) end