"Whereas a transport-layer protocol provides logical communication between processes running on different hosts, a network-layer protocol provides logical communication between hosts."
"The application developer has control of everything on the application-layer side of the socket but has little control of the transport-layer side of the socket."
"Many of today’s most popular and traffic-intensive applications are based on P2P architectures. These applications include file sharing (e.g., BitTorrent), peer-assisted download acceleration (e.g., Xunlei), Internet Telephony (e.g., Skype), and IPTV (e.g.,Kankan and PPstream)."
"One interesting property of MAC addresses is that no two adapters have the same address. This might seem surprising given that adapters are manufactured in many countries by many companies. How does a company manufacturing adapters in China make sure that it is using different addresses from a compa"
"Until the early 1990s the Internet was used primarily by researchers, academics, and university students to log in to remote hosts, to transfer files from local hosts to remote hosts and vice versa, to receive and send news, and to receive and send electronic mail. Although these applications were(a"