01:198:170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Intranet, Top-Level Domain, Ieee 802.11

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: 01:198:170
• Professor: S Stoll

Document Summary

Synchronous communication requires that both the sender and receiver are active at the same time. Asynchronous communication the sending and receiving occur at different times. Types of communications by number of receivers population. Broadcast involves a single sender and many receivers. Multicast when there are many receivers, but the intended recipients are not whole. Point-to-point one specific sender and one specific receiver. Can be illustrated by the following what happens when you browse online. Example) when you (client) click on a web page the server responds by sending you the web page. A server can handle many clients at once. Internet protocol address a sequence of four numbers separated by dots. Domain names refer to computers, rather than their ip addresses. Domain name system is the ehrichical structure we use to name computers. Educational organization washington institution computer science department spiff is the name of the computer in the computer lab. Com, edu, org, net, gov, mil, int.