Articles for category: Computer Network

Shivam Verma

What is Bus Architecture?

A bus is a collection of electrical pathways or conductors that carry data, addresses, and control signals between different hardware components. These components are linked to the bus, allowing them to interact and collaborate effortlessly, and these all together are called bus architecture. The width (number of data lines), speed, and protocols of bus architectures ...

Shivam Verma

What is Network Hardware?

The physical components and devices that are required for computer networks to function are referred to as network hardware. These devices make it easier for computers and other network devices to communicate and transmit data. Network hardware is an essential component in establishing and maintaining efficient and reliable network infrastructures, whether they be small local ...

Priyanshu Pandey

What is Native VLAN?

The Native VLAN functions as a conduit for untagged data across a trunk port. If untagged data arrives at a trunk port, the switch inherently assigns it to the native VLAN. The Native VLAN refers to the default VLAN for an Ethernet trunk (a link or port that carries traffic for multiple VLANs) when no ...

Trapti Gupta

Web Server vs. Application Server

The web server provides run time for web applications and it is more relevant for the static pages whereas the application server provides runtime for the enterprise applications and it is more relevant for the dynamic pages. Apache Tomcat, Resin, etc. are examples of web servers. Weblogic, JBoss, Websphere, etc. are some of the examples ...

Shivam Verma

Difference Between FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA

FDMA (Frequency Division Multiple Access), TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access), and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) are three distinct multiple access techniques used in telecommunications and wireless communication systems. These are all data transmission and communication techniques. They are highly effective, but because of their unique features, they are used in various ways. Each technique has ...

Shubhrima Jana

Flow Control and Error Control

Data Link Layer is responsible for reliable point-to-point data transfer over a physical medium. To implement this data link layer provides three functions : What is Flow Control in the Data Link Layer? Flow control is a set of procedures that restrict the amount of data a sender should send before it waits for some acknowledgment from the ...

Trapti Gupta

Cryptography and Network Security

Cryptography is a term used in data communication that refers to protecting the private information shared between two parties. Network Security refers to securing and protecting the network and data to ensure the confidentiality of data. What is Cryptography? Cryptography generally deals with the study and practice of techniques for ensuring secure communication between two parties ...

Akshay Mishra

What is MAC Address?

MAC address is the physical address, which uniquely identifies each device on a given network. To make communication between two networked devices, we need two addresses: IP address and MAC address. A physical address that operates at the Data Link Layer is called a Media Access Control Address. It is assigned to the NIC (Network Interface card) of ...

Sakhi Bhagwat

IPv4 Address

The IPv4 address or the Internet Protocol Address is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol. IPv4 addresses are 32-bit addresses that are unique to every host or device on the internet. The IP address allows the host to be connected to other devices on the internet to communicate with them. There are two versions of Internet Protocol- IPv4 and IPv6. ...

Raj Bopche

Singly Linked List

A linked list is a dynamic data structure comprised of nodes, each containing data and a pointer to the next node. Unlike arrays, linked lists don’t require contiguous memory, making them ideal for dynamic resizing. The initial node, known as the HEAD, serves as the starting point for traversal. Comparatively, while arrays have fixed sizes, ...