2.3 Foundations of Distributed Systems

Aim: How do we send messages between computers across a network?

Physical Concepts:

Bandwidth, Latency

Packet Concepts:

Data, Headers

Routing Concepts:

Shared Media, Switches and Routing Tables, Routing Protocols

For more detailed notes, see Dan Chalmers' Multimedia Communications Technology notes in http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/courses/mct/.