Data Communications

and Networking
DATA COMMUNICATIONS

• The term telecommunication means communication at a distance.

The word data refers to information presented in whatever form
is agreed upon by the parties creating and using the data. Data
communications are the exchange of data between two devices
via some form of transmission medium such as a wire cable

Topics to be discussed in this session:

Components
Data Représentation
Data Flow
Figure 1.1 Five components of data communication
Figure 1.2 Data flow (simplex, half-duplex, and full-duplex)
 NETWORKS
A network is a set of devices (often referred to as nodes) connected
by communication links. A node can be a computer, printer, or any
other device capable of sending and/or receiving data generated by
other nodes on the network.
Figure 1.3 Types of connections: point-to-point and multipoint
Figure 1.4 Categories of topology
Figure 1.5 A fully connected mesh topology (five devices)
Figure 1.6 A star topology connecting four stations
Figure 1.7 A bus topology connecting three stations
Figure 1.8 A ring topology connecting six stations
Figure 1.9 A hybrid topology: a star backbone with three bus networks
A heterogeneous network made of four WANs and two LANs
 Network Models
We use the concept of layers in our daily life. As an
example, let us consider two friends who
communicate through postal mail. The process of
sending a letter to a friend would be complex if there
were no services available from the post office.
Tasks involved in sending a letter
 THE OSI MODEL
Established in 1947, the International Standards Organization
(ISO) is a multinational body dedicated to worldwide
agreement on international standards. An ISO standard that
covers all aspects of network communications is the Open
Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. It was first introduced in
the late 1970s.

ISO is the organization.

OSI is the model.
Seven layers of the OSI model
The interaction between layers in the OSI model
 LAYERS IN THE OSI MODEL

Physical Layer
Data Link Layer
Network Layer
Transport Layer
Session Layer
Presentation Layer
Application Layer
 The application layer is responsible for
providing services to the user.
The presentation layer is responsible for translation,
compression, and encryption.
The session layer is responsible for dialog
control and synchronization.
The transport layer is responsible for the delivery
of a message from one process to another.
The network layer is responsible for the
delivery of individual packets from
the source host to the destination host.
The data link layer is responsible for moving
frames from one hop (node) to the next.
The physical layer is responsible for movements of
individual bits from one hop (node) to the next.
Summary of layers
 TCP/IP PROTOCOL SUITE
The layers in the TCP/IP protocol suite do not exactly
match those in the OSI model.

The original TCP/IP protocol suite was defined as

having four layers: host-to-network, internet, transport,
and application.

However, when TCP/IP is compared to OSI, we can say

that the

TCP/IP protocol suite is made of five layers:

physical, data link, network, transport, and application.

TCP/IP and OSI model
Addresses in TCP/IP
 Physical addresses (MAC)

07:01:02:01:2C:4B

A 6-byte (12 hexadecimal digits) physical address.

 Port addresses

753
A 16-bit port address represented
as one single number.
The physical addresses will change from hop to hop,
but the logical addresses usually remain the same.