Mobile Computing
Mobile Computing
Transport Layer
Internet Layer.
Fragmentation – If a packet is too large for transmission The TCP/IP transport layer protocols ensure that
over the network media, IP on the sending host breaks packets arrive in sequence and without error, by
the packet into smaller fragments. IP on the receiving swapping acknowledgments of data reception, and
host then reconstructs the fragments into the original retransmitting lost packets. This type of communication
packet. is known as “end-to-end.” Transport layer protocols at
Previous releases of the Solaris operating environment this level are Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and
implement version 4 of the Internet Protocol, which is User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
abbreviated as IPv4. However, because of the rapid
growth of the Internet, a new Internet Protocol was TCP Protocol
created. The new protocol increases address space. This
TCP enables applications to communicate with each
new version, known as version 6, is abbreviated as IPv6.
other as though connected by a physical circuit. TCP
The Solaris operating environment supports both
sends data in a form that appears to be transmitted in a
versions, which are described in this book. To avoid
character-by-character fashion, rather than as discrete
confusion when addressing the Internet Protocol, one
packets. This transmission consists of a starting point,
of the following conventions is used:
which opens the connection, the entire transmission in
When the term IP is used in a description, the
byte order, and an ending point, which closes the
description applies to both IPv4 and IPv6.
connection.
When the term IPv4 is used in a description, the
description applies only to IPv4. TCP attaches a header onto the transmitted data. This
When the term IPv6 is used in a description, the header contains a large number of parameters that
description applies only to IPv6. help processes on the sending machine connect to peer
processes on the receiving machine.
ARP Protocol
TCP confirms that a packet has reached its destination describes the services that are provided by the daemon
by establishing an end-to-end connection between in.ftpd.
sending and receiving hosts. TCP is therefore
considered a “reliable, connection-oriented” protocol.
Routing Protocol