Articles for category: Computer Network

Shivam Verma

Wireless Sensor Network

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network of small, autonomous devices equipped with sensors that monitor and collect data from their surroundings. They communicate wirelessly, enabling data collection, analysis, and transmission. WSNs are used in a variety of fields, including environmental monitoring, industrial automation, healthcare, and smart infrastructure. What are Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)? ...

Priyanshu Pandey

Types of VPN and Its Protocols

A VPN (virtual private network) is a service that establishes a secure, encrypted online connection. A VPN establishes a virtual connection between your device and a distant server managed by a VPN service. This connection establishes a secure point-to-point tunnel that encodes your personal information, conceals your IP address, and enables you to bypass online ...

Sushant Gaurav

Difference Between OSI and TCP/IP Model

Two well-known models in networking, TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) and OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) provide the conceptual foundations for comprehending communication operations. While both models enable data interchange across networks, their organizational and conceptual approaches differ. OSI Model It is a conceptual framework that influences how gadgets interact with networks. Imagine it as a ...

Priyanshu Pandey

What is Bridge in Computer Network?

A bridge is a network device that joins multiple subnetworks to form a large single network. It offers interconnection to other computer networks that employ the same protocol. Multiple LANs (Local Area Networks) can be linked via a bridge to build a more extensive LAN. Bridges operate at the data link layer, the second layer ...

Shivam Verma

Difference Between Static and Dynamic Websites

A website is like a bundle of web pages that holds various things like text, pictures, and videos. Accessing these pages is as simple as typing a specific web address (URL) into your browser’s address bar.Static and dynamic websites are two fundamental types of websites that differ in their structure, content management, and user interaction. ...

Trapti Gupta

Ring Topology

In ring topology, every node has a connection with two neighbor nodes. And they share a single continuous pathway for signal transmission in the whole network. Ring topology is used by the Local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN). What is Ring Topology? In a computer network, a ring topology is a type ...

Trapti Gupta

Administrative Distance and Autonomous System

Administrative distance allows one to select the best path for reaching a destination when there are two or more routes defined by two different routing protocols for reaching the same destination node.An autonomous system is a group of more than one associated internet protocol (IP) prefixes along with a clearly described policy about how the ...

Shivam Singla

Difference between CDMA and GSM

One of the most important andpractical aspects of digital communication is mobile communication. It is a tremendous accomplishment in and of itself to be able to wirelessly link two mobile devices, and the two technologies that have shown to be essential to this success are GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and CDMA (Code Division ...

Trapti Gupta

XAMPP vs WAMP: Key Differences

The full form of XAMPP is Cross-platform, Apache, Mysql, Php, and Perl. The full form of WAMP is Windows, Apache, Mysql, and Php. The main difference between xampp and wamp is that multiple operating systems are supported by xampp, but wamp can only work on Windows operating systems. In this article, we will learn the ...

Priyanshu Pandey

Telecommunication Networks

A telecommunications network is a collection of nodes linked together by telecommunications links that allow the nodes to exchange messages. The links may employ several technologies to transmit messages and signals based on circuit switching, message switching, or packet switching approaches. The public switched telephone network (PSTN), the Internet, computer networks, and wireless radio networks ...