Chapter 1

Layering Concepts

OSI model

medium • 1 min read

TCP/IP stack

medium • 2 min read

Peer-to-peer

medium • 3 min read

Packet vs Circuit switching

medium • 4 min read

Performance metrics

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 2

Data Link Layer

Framing

medium • 1 min read

Error detection/correction

medium • 2 min read

Flow control

medium • 3 min read

Sliding window

medium • 4 min read

HDLC

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 3

Medium Access Control

Ethernet

medium • 1 min read

CSMA/CD

medium • 2 min read

CSMA/CA

medium • 3 min read

ALOHA

medium • 4 min read

Token ring

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 4

Network Layer

IP addressing (IPv4/IPv6)

medium • 1 min read

Subnetting

medium • 2 min read

CIDR

medium • 3 min read

Fragmentation

medium • 4 min read

Mobility support

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 5

Routing Algorithms

Distance vector

medium • 1 min read

Link state

medium • 2 min read

RIP

medium • 3 min read

OSPF

medium • 4 min read

BGP

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 6

Transport Layer

TCP

medium • 1 min read

UDP

medium • 2 min read

Congestion control

medium • 3 min read

Flow control

medium • 4 min read

Three-way handshake

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 7

Application Layer

DNS

medium • 1 min read

HTTP

medium • 2 min read

SMTP

medium • 3 min read

FTP

medium • 4 min read

SNMP

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 8

Network Security

Cryptography

medium • 1 min read

Public/private key

medium • 2 min read

Digital signatures

medium • 3 min read

Firewalls

medium • 4 min read

VPN

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 9

Socket Programming

Client-server model

medium • 1 min read

TCP sockets

medium • 2 min read

UDP sockets

medium • 3 min read

Port assignment

medium • 4 min read

Binding

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 10

Emerging Technologies

Cloud networks

medium • 1 min read

Web automation

medium • 2 min read

IoT protocols

medium • 3 min read

Software defined networking

medium • 4 min read

Blockchain sync

medium • 5 min read