CS2005: Lecture 2 (Application Layer I)

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What is a process?
A program running within a host
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How do processes communicate within the same host and what is it defined by?
Using inter-process communication defined by the OS
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How do processes in different hosts communicate?
By exchanging messages
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The client process is responsible for what?
It initiates the communication
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What does the server process do?
It waits to be contacted by the client
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What is self-scalability?
In a P2P architecture, new peers bring new service capacity, as well as new service demands
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A transport-layer protocol provides logical communication between what?
Between processes running on different hosts
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A network-layer protocol provides logical communication between what?
Between hosts
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Does a transport protocol dictate how the messages are moved within the network core?
No, it does not
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Can a transport protocol provide certain services even when the underlying network protocol doesn’t offer the corresponding service?
Yes it can
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How do processes communicate within the same host and what is it defined by?

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Using inter-process communication defined by the OS

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How do processes in different hosts communicate?

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The client process is responsible for what?

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What does the server process do?

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