Internetworking With TCP/IP

Concurrency In Networks The term concurrency refers to real or apparent simultaneous computing. For example, a multi-user computer system ...

Programs do not always fit exactly into the definition of client or server. A server program may need to access network services that requir...

Information that a server maintains about the status of ongoing interactions with clients is called state information. Servers that do not k...

When programmers design client-server software, they must choose between two types of interaction: a connectionless style or a connection-or...

Standard application services consist of those services defined by TCP/IP and assigned well-known, universally recognized protocol port iden...

From the viewpoint of an application, TCP/IP, like most computer communication protocols, merely provides basic mechanisms used to transfer...

Viewing Services From The Provider's Perspective The examples of application services given above show how a service appears from an ind...