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Computer Science 1631Internet & Web
Learning Objectives
In this lecture, we will learn about:
• The origin, growth, and current structure of the Internet
• How packet-switched networks combined to form the Internet
• Internet protocols and Internet addressing
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Technology Overview
• Computer networks and the Internet form the basic technology structure for what is now the WWW.
• The computers in these networks run such software as:
• Operating systems, database managers, encryption software, multimedia creation and viewing software, and the graphical user interface
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Technology Overview
• The Internet includes:
• The hardware that connects the computers together
• the hardware that connects the networks together
• Rapid change in these technologies requires businesses to be flexible
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Packet-Switched Networks
• A local area network (LAN) is a network of computers close together.
• A wide area network (WAN) is a network of computers connected over a great distance.
• Circuit switching is used in telephone communication.
• The Internet uses packet switching• Files are broken down into small pieces (called packets) that
are labeled with their origin, sequence, and destination addresses.
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Internet Protocols
http://http:// World Wide WebWorld Wide Webmailto:mailto: E-mail addressE-mail addressftp://ftp:// File Transfer File Transfer ProtocolProtocoltelnet:telnet: TelnetTelnet
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Top Level Domain Names
.edu.edu Educational Institution (in US)Educational Institution (in US)
.ca.ca Country Codes (Country Codes (two letters such as .ca, two letters such as .ca, .de, .mx, .jp).de, .mx, .jp)
.gov.gov Governmental AgencyGovernmental Agency
.mil.mil Military EntityMilitary Entity
.com.com Commercial EntityCommercial Entity
.net.net Internet Service ProviderInternet Service Provider
.org.org Non-Profit OrganizationNon-Profit Organization
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When Computers Communicate
• When two or more computers communicate, they must have a common way in which to communicate.
• To do this computers use protocols• A protocol is an agreement by which two or more
computers can communicate.• Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) is the underlying protocol for the Internet.
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How TCP/IP Works
1) Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) breaks data into small pieces of no bigger than 1500 characters each. These “pieces” are called packets.
101010101001101010011010011010210101010101011010111101010111011101110110110000101110110101010101001110101001010111101000
101010101001101010011010011010210101010101011010111101010111011101110110110000101110110101010101001110101001010111101000
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
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How TCP/IP Works(II)
2) Each packet is inserted into different Internet Protocol (IP) “envelopes.” Each contains the address of the intended recipient and has the exact same header as all other envelopes.
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
101010101001101010011010011
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How TCP/IP Works
• A router receives the packets and then determines the most efficient way to send the packets to the recipient.
• After traveling along a series of routers, the packets arrive at their destination.
Packet 101010101001101010011010011
Packet 101010101001101010011010011
Router 1
Router 2
Router 3
Router 4
Packet 101010101001101010011010011
Packet 101010101001101010011010011
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Packets
• Everything you do on the Internet involves packets. For example, every Web page that you receive comes as a series of packets, and every e-mail you send leaves as a series of packets. Networks that ship data around in small packets are called packet switched networks. On the Internet, the network breaks an e-mail message into parts of a certain size in bytes. These collections of bytes are the packets. Each packet carries the information that will help it get to its destination – – the sender's IP address, – the intended receiver's IP address, – something that tells the network how many packets this e-mail
message has been broken into and
– the sequence number of this particular packet.
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Packets Purpose
• The packets carry the data in the protocols that the Internet uses: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Each packet contains part of the body of your message. A typical packet contains perhaps 1,000 or 1,500 bytes.
• Each packet is then sent off to its destination by the best available route -- a route that might be taken by all the other packets in the message or by none of the other packets in the message. This makes the network more efficient. First, the network can balance the load across various pieces of equipment on a millisecond-by-millisecond basis. Second, if there is a problem with one piece of equipment in the network while a message is being transferred, packets can be routed around the problem, ensuring the delivery of the entire message.
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Packet Design
Most packets are split into three parts: • Header - The header contains instructions about the data
carried by the packet. These instructions may include: • Body - Also called the payload or data of a packet. This is
the actual data that the packet is delivering to the destination. If a packet is fixed-length, then the payload may be padded with blank information to make it the right size.
• Footer - sometimes called the trailer, typically contains a couple of bits that tell the receiving device that it has reached the end of the packet. It may also have some type of error checking.
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How are Packets Used
• If a message is sent over the internet, it will be broken into packets. Each packet's header will contain the proper protocols, the originating address (the IP address of your computer), the destination address (the IP address of the computer where you are sending the e-mail) and the packet number (1, 2, 3 or 4 since there are 4 packets). Routers in the network will look at the destination address in the header and compare it to their lookup table to find out where to send the packet. Once the packet arrives at its destination, the receiving computer will strip the header and footer off each packet and reassemble the message based on the numbered sequence of the packets.
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Packet Header
• Header (contains instructions about the data carried by the packet)
– Length of packet – Synchronization (a few bits that help the packet match
up to the network) – Packet number (which packet this is in a sequence of
packets) – Protocol (on networks that carry multiple types of
information, the protocol defines what type of packet is being transmitted: e-mail, Web page, streaming video)
– Destination address – Originating address
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Packet Body and Footer
• Body - Also called the payload or data of a packet. This is the actual data that the packet is delivering to the destination. If a packet is fixed-length, then the payload may be padded with blank information to make it the right size.
• Footer - sometimes called the trailer, typically contains a couple of bits that tell the receiving device that it has reached the end of the packet. It may also have some type of error checking.
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Error Checking
• The most common error checking used in packets is Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC).
• CRC takes the sum of all the 1s in the payload and adds them together. The result is stored as a hexadecimal value in the footer (trailer). The receiving device adds up the 1s in the payload and compares the result to the value stored in the trailer. If the values match, the packet is good. But if the values do not match, the receiving device sends a request to the originating device to resend the packet.
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Error checking example (CRC)
Suppose you have 4 bytes of data of the form
10101101 00111000 11001011 10010011
– The sum of all the 1’s in this data is 17. This value can be represented in binary form as
00010001
The value 17 (00010001) is the CRC value which is inserted into the footer (trailer)
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Packet Construction
• Suppose you send an e-mail to a friend, that the e-mail is about 3,500 bits (3.5 kbits) in size, and that the network you send it over uses fixed-length packets of 1,024 bits (1 kilobit). The header of each packet is 96 bits long and the footer is 32 bits long, leaving 896 bits for the payload. To break the 3,500 bits of message into packets, you will need four packets (divide 3,500 by 896). Three packets will contain 896 bits of data and the fourth will have 812 bits.
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Routing Packets
• The computers that decide how best to forward each packet in a packet-switched network are called ‘routers’.
• The programs on these routers use ‘routing algorithms’ that call upon their ‘routing tables’ to determine the best path to send each packet.
• When packets leave a network to travel on the Internet, they are translated into a standard format by the router.
• These routers and the telecommunication lines connecting them are referred to as ‘the Internet backbone’.
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How TCP/IP Works
• Upon arrival at their destination, TCP checks the data for corruption against the header included in each packet. If TCP finds a bad packet, it sends a request that the packet be re-transmitted.
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IP Addresses
• Since computers process numbers more efficiently and quickly than characters, each machine directly connected to the Internet is given an IP Address
• An IP address is a 32-bit address comprised of four 8-bit numbers (28) separated by periods. Each of the four numbers has a value between 0 and 255
• Normally, an IP address is is given in “dotted decimal” form 138.73.1.35
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IP Addresses
• Example of an IP Address:
http://138.73.1.35The IP Address of the
MtA Web Server
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IP Addresses vs. URLs
• While numeric IP addresses work very well for computers, most humans find it difficult to remember long patterns of numbers.
• Instead, humans identify computers using Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), a.k.a. “Web Addresses”.
• When a human types a URL into a browser, the request is sent to a Domain Name Server (DNS), which then translates the URL to an IP address understood by computers.
• The DNS acts like a phonebook.
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Anatomy of a URL
http://www.mta.ca/index.html
http protocol
www machine name
mta subdomain
ca top level domain name
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Internet Protocols
• A protocol is a collection of rules for formatting, ordering, and error-checking data sent across a network.
• ARPANET is the earliest packet-switched network.(ARPA = Advanced Research Projects Agency). ARPA was started by the US govt in the 1960s, after the Soviet launch of Sputnik in October, 1967
• The open architecture of this experimental network used Network Control Protocol (NCP) which later was modified to become TCP/IP, the core of the Internet.
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Internet Protocols
• This open architecture has four key rules that have contributed to the success of the Internet.
– Independent networks should not require any internal changes to be connected to the network.
– Packets that do not arrive at their destinations must be retransmitted from their source network.
– Router computers act as receive-and-forward devices; they do not retain information about the packets that they handle.
– No global control exists over the network.
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Internet Protocols
• The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) are the two protocols that support the Internet operation (commonly referred to as TCP/IP).
• The TCP controls the disassembly of a message into packets before it is transmitted over the Internet and the reassembly of those packets when they reach their destination.
• The IP specifies the addressing details for each packet being transmitted.
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IP Addresses
• IP addresses are based on a 32-bit binary number that allows over 4 billion unique addresses for computers to connect to the Internet. (138.73.27.246 is Art Miller’s office machine)
– Ping 138.73.27.246
• IP addresses appear in ‘dotted decimal’ notation (four numbers separated by periods).
– Each number is in the range 0…255 – Hex notation (aside)– IP Addresses in decimal form
• IP addresses are assigned by three not-for-profit organizations (ARIN, RIPE, and APNIC).
– Organization of IP numbers
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IP Addresses
• Approximately two billion IP addresses are either in use or unavailable for use.
• Private IP addresses are a series of IP numbers that have been set aside for subnet use and are not permitted on the Internet.
• IPv6 is a possible solution that uses a 128-bit hexadecimal number for addresses.
– A number written using 128 bits can be in the range from 1…2 128
– Since 2 10 is approximately 103 = 1,000, it follows that – 2 128 ~ (2 10) 12 ~ (10 3) 12 ~ 10 36 ~ – 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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Domain Names
• To make the numbering system easier to use, an alternative addressing method that uses words was created.
• An address, such as www.google.com, is called a domain name.www.mta.ca = 138.73.1.35
• The last part of a domain name (i.e., ‘.com’) is the most general identifier in the name and is called a ‘top-level domain’ (TLD). The TLD for for MtA is .ca
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History: Before the Web
• History of the Internet• Before the creation of the World Wide Web (1989,
Tim Berners-Lee) there was a set of technologies which constituted the internet
– telnet– ftp– Gopher
• History of the Web
• Early browsers for the Web were not as capable as those of today
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Web Page Delivery
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the set of rules for delivering Web pages over the Internet.
• HTTP uses the client/server model• A user’s Web browser opens an HTTP session and sends a request
for a Web page to a remote server.
• In response, the server creates an HTTP response message that is
sent back to the client’s Web browser.• In particular, this same action can be accomplished without a browser by
using the (DOS command prompt) TELNET www.mta.ca 80 (port 80) and once connected using the case sensitive
command GET / (followed by two carriage returns) This will return the same thing that is returned by your web browser when you enter http://www.mta.ca
• The combination of the protocol name and the domain name is called a uniform resource locator (URL).
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SMTP, POP, MIME, and IMAP
• E-mail sent across the Internet must also be formatted to a common set of rules, otherwise e-mail created by one company (or Web site) could not be read by a person at another company.
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) specifies the exact format of a mail message and describes how mail is to be administered at the Internet and network level.
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SMTP, POP, MIME, and IMAP
• An e-mail program running on a user’s computer can request mail from the company’s main e-mail computer using the Post Office Protocol (POP).
• Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) allow the user to attach binary files to e-mail.
• The Interactive Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) performs the same basic functions as POP, but includes additional features.
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Internet Connection Options
• The Internet is a set of interconnected networks.
• Large firms that provide Internet access to other businesses are called Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
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Connectivity Overview
• The most common connection options that ISPs offer to the Internet are telephone, broadband, leased-line, and wireless.
• The internet grew quickly in North America because local telephone calls were free, as opposed to Europe, where local calls were charged by the time unit
• Bandwidth is the amount of data that can travel through a communication line per unit of time.
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Voice-Grade Telephone Connections
• The most common way to connect to an ISP is through a modem connected to your local telephone service provider.(or cable provider)
• POTS uses existing telephone lines and an analog modem to provide a bandwidth of 28-56 Kbps.
• DSL protocol offers high speed bandwidth over standard phone lines.