Computer Networks - Applications

Network Applications

Computer networking? There's an app for that.

A network applications is a program that communicates over a network but runs on end systems, not core network devices. You can't install skype on a router!

There are 4 distinct architectures for network apps:

Computer Networks – Play-out Delay

Internet Phone: Fixed Play-out Delay

With this, the receiver attempts to play out each chunk of data at exactly qms after the chunk was generated.

• This chunk has a time stamp, t: So the play-out chunk is at t+q
• If the chunk arrives after t+q, then the data arrives too late for play-out – the data is LOST!

Computer Networks - Multimedia

What is Multimedia?

So what exactly is multimedia? well the truth is – nobody knows!! This is because its nothing but binary data – except for audio and video which varies, and is commonly in analogue.