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Parent topics
- Computer networking media sharing protocols [r]: Computer network protocols that mediate the access of multiple devices to a common physical medium; the data link layer in the Open Systems Interconnection Reference Model but part of the interface layer in the Internet Protocol Suite [e]
Subtopics
- Medium access control [r]: The set of protocols and administrative conventions that let multiple computers or communications devices share a common network medium, usually referring to a local area network medium, but also an area of radio communications on a given part of the electromagnetic spectrum [e]
- Address Resolution Protocol [r]: TCP/IP protocol used to obtain a node's physical address. [e]
- Autonomous System [r]: A set of routers and Internet Protocol addresses, under one or more administrative managers, that present a common routing policy to the Internet routing system via the Border Gateway Protocol [e]
- Internet [r]: International "network of networks" that connects computers together through the Internet Protocol Suite and supports applications like Email and the World Wide Web. [e]
- Virtual private network [r]: A communications system that interconnects one or more customer-defined set of sites with routed, data link, or physical connectivity, mapped through an underlying customer-owned or provider-provisioned backbone. It may provided connectivity alone, or connectivity with guarantees of security and quality of service. [e]
- Extranet [r]: A predefined set of networked computers, under the control of different enterprises, that can communicate with one another for well-defined, secure application processing. [e]
- Intranet [r]: A set of networked computers, under one administration, which can only communicate with one another. [e]
- Femtocell [r]: Low-power wireless access points that operate in licensed spectrum to connect standard mobile devices to a mobile operator’s network using residential DSL or cable broadband connections (http://femtoforum.org) [e]
- Link-local [r]: Computer information that has destination addresses unique only on a shared transmission medium, either wired or wireless. Think "house number" that can repeat on multiple unique "streets". [e]
- Multi-Protocol Label Switching [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode [r]: A technology for the transfer of fixed-length "cells" of digital information through specialized cell switches built on top of optical transmission networks; increasingly obsolescent [e]
- Frame relay [r]: A layer 2 digital data transmission system, used for low to medium speed permanent connection in the wide area, and beginning to be replaced by MPLS [e]
- Local area network [r]: A range of techniques for interconnecting multiple computers, over physical media such as wire or over wireless radio, within a limited geographic area, typically multiples of 100 meters. [e]
- Bridge (computer network) [r]: A relay that makes forwarding plane decisions based on MAC addresses or other link-local address information [e]
- Self-organizing network [r]: A set of cooperating elements that announce themselves, learn of other nodes of interest, and build interconnections, without the need for central control or manual administration. [e]
- Mobile ad hoc networking [r]: A family of mobile computing techniques in which not only the hosts move, sometimes at supersonic speed, but the routers and other devices organizing them into networks also move [e]
- Small and home office [r]: A computing and networking environment characterized by a small number of computers, telephones, and video outputs; a lack of professional systems administration staff; and difficulty in cabling to computers elsewhere on the premises [e]
- Radio Frequency Identification [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Addressing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anycasting [r]: A technique for increasing load distribution and fault tolerance in networks with multiple copies of a read-only server function, but with the same unicast address. [e]
- Multicasting [r]: In networking, the transmission of a piece of information such that its destination address is recognized by multiple targets of a multicast group. Broadcasting is a special case of the multicast group, when the group contains all addresses. [e]
- Unicast [r]: A computer protocol message that is addressed to one and only one destination [e]
- History of computing [r]: How electronic computers were first invented; how the technology underlying them evolved. [e]
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers [r]: The top-level international organization that directs the assignment of Domain Name System (DNS) names, Internet Protocol addresses, and other technical identifiers that must be unique for the proper operation of the Internet [e]
- Internet Protocol version 6 [r]: The next-generation Internet Protocol, providing (among other benefits) a vastly increased address space (128bits), which should in turn provide the ability for an end-to-end Internet and allowing new models of communication to be developed. [e]
- Internet Protocol [r]: A protocol that is used to transmit data across an Internet Protocol Suite-compatible network, "hop-by-hop" from the source host, through intermediate routers, to the destination host [e]
- Link state routing [r]: A paradigm for drawing the "map" of a network, to be used by routers, based on a model where the direct connections of each router in a scope are flooded to all others in that scope, and they perform a distributed computation to determine the best paths to other destinations from their place in the topology. Larger link state networks, for performance reasons, are usually hierarchical. [e]
- Locality of reference [r]: A commonly observed pattern in memory accesses by a computer program over time. [e]
Scoped services
- Automatic Identification System [r]: A system, aboard ships and boats, that combines marine radio transmitters and receivers, Global Navigation Satellite System receivers, and computer control into a self-organizing, mobile network in which vessels are inform nearby traffic, potential collision hazards, and navigational information [e]
- Cellular telephony [r]: A set of techniques that let many low-powered portable telephones connect to the fixed network, often exchanging data and images as well as voice [e]
- Global Information Grid [r]: The overall computing and communications architecture and systems interconnecting the U.S. Department of Defense military and civilian organizations, other government agencies, and allied nations; information is at the strategic/theater and operational, not tactical levels [e]
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- Bridge (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Datagram [r]: A self-contained unit of data, containing a source and destination address analogous to a letter, which can be efficiently forwarded by routers [e]
- Electromagnetic spectrum [r]: The range of electromagnetic waves covering all frequencies and wavelengths. [e]
- Ethernet [r]: An early proprietary standard for local area networks developed by IEEE Project 802; the term has become generic for various connectors and communications techniques although the name of a standard would be more precise. [e]
- Full duplex [r]: A property of a communications medium that allows simultaneous transmission by all endpoints [e]
- IEEE 1394 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- IEEE Project 802 [r]: The main standards body, with many working groups, that specifies technical standards for wired and wireless local area networks, with ranges up to tens of kilometers [e]
- Open Shortest Path First [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Physical layer protocol [r]: A mechanical, and electrical or optical, specification that defines the connection between a computer and the transmission medium, aspects or all details of the transmission medium, or both [e]
- Protocol (computer) [r]: A complete specification of the rules for communication between two or more computing devices in a computer network. [e]
