Overview of Communication Types in Networking
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What is the primary function of a message broker in a distributed system?

  • To facilitate routing and transformation of messages between clients (correct)
  • To store messages permanently for retrieval by clients
  • To manage the application-specific messages directly from clients
  • To authenticate and restrict access to message queues

    • In IBM's WebSphere MQ, what is the role of a queue manager?

  • To establish secure communication channels between clients
  • To store messages indefinitely for storage management
  • To oversee the placement and retrieval of messages from queues (correct)
  • To manage the transformation of messages

    • What component is essential for message transfer between queues at different processes in IBM's WebSphere MQ?

  • Remote Procedure Call (RPC) mechanism
  • Application-specific message format
  • Message channel agent (correct)
  • Message queue broker program

    • What are message channel agents responsible for in the context of IBM’s WebSphere MQ?

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    What mechanism allows processes to put messages into remote queues in WebSphere MQ?

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    What is the nature of communication in Message-Oriented Communication as described?

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    What is a key function of the Message Channel Agents (MCAs) in the system?

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    Which type of network management is involved in setting up routes within the queue managers?

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    How can a network of queue managers be characterized based on the content provided?

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    In terms of client-server communication, what type of communication does not occur?

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    What is the purpose of using logical names in message-oriented communication?

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    Which type of communication is characterized by time-dependent values?

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    What type of media is NOT considered continuous?

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    Which of the following is typically included under continuous media?

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    What does stream management in distributed systems primarily involve?

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    How does message-oriented communication differ from stream-oriented communication?

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    Which component is essential in routing messages in IBM's WebSphere MQ?

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    In the context of stream-oriented communication, which data type is generally not included?

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    What is a key characteristic of message-oriented middleware?

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    Which statement best describes Remote Procedure Call (RPC)?

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    In the context of RPC, what does the term 'black box' refer to?

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    What does the client do in a basic RPC operation after calling a remote procedure?

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    What aspect of RPC enhances fault tolerance?

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    Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Remote Procedure Calls?

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    What characterizes TCP communication?

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    Which of the following describes persistent communication?

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    What does the communication mechanism in an RPC primarily facilitate?

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    What happens when a client makes a call to a remote procedure in RPC?

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    In the context of middleware, what is a primary purpose of naming protocols?

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    What is the distinction between transient and persistent communication?

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    Which of the following is a feature of UDP?

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    In middleware, what is a key function of (un)marshaling?

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    What type of communication occurs when synchronization happens at request delivery?

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    Which of the following best describes a situation where a message is discarded if not delivered immediately?

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    What is the primary function of using buffers in stream-oriented communication?

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    What effect does packet loss have when multiple samples are sent in a single packet?

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    How should the difference in time between synch substreams be maintained in a stereo sound stream?

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    What does a buffer help alleviate in terms of packet delivery?

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    Which scenario exemplifies the challenge of stream synchronization?

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    In the context of lost packets, what is one possible consequence of missing packets 1 and 2 in a sequence?

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    What strategy can be employed to minimize the impact of lost frames in a stream?

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    Which of the following statements about enforcing Quality of Service (QoS) is true?

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    Flashcards

    TCP

    Connection-oriented, reliable, stream-oriented communication protocol for the internet.

    UDP

    Unreliable (best-effort) datagram communication protocol for the internet.

    Transient Communication

    Communication where messages are discarded if delivery fails or are not received immediately.

    Persistent Communication

    Communication where messages are stored until delivery, even if not immediately received.

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    Middleware

    Software that provides common services and protocols for different applications.

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    Communication Protocols

    Standards that govern how software interacts and exchanges data.

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    Synchronous Communication

    Communication where action happens immediately or in tandem.

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    Asynchronous Communication

    Communication where action happens independently and not in real time.

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    Message-oriented middleware

    A system that facilitates asynchronous communication between processes, using messages queued for later processing.

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    Remote Procedure Call (RPC)

    A mechanism for a program to call a procedure in another computer system as though it were located locally.

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    Basic RPC Operation

    Client requests a procedure from a server, server performs it, returns result.

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    Parameter Passing

    The process of sending data to a remote procedure within an RPC.

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    Fault Tolerance (Messaging)

    Middleware's ability to handle failures during message exchange.

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    Client-Server Interaction (RPC)

    Client requests, server responds; hidden communication.

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    Procedure call analogy

    Remote processes communicate as if making a local procedure call

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    Message Broker: What is it?

    A central component in message-oriented communication, acting as a repository for messages, managing conversion rules and programs, and facilitating communication between clients.

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    Broker Program

    Software within the message broker responsible for processing messages, managing queues, converting messages, and ensuring reliable delivery.

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    Queuing Layer

    A component within the message broker that stores and manages messages in a queue, ensuring order and reliable delivery.

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    WebSphere MQ: Message Transfer

    Messages are transferred between queues using channels, which establish communication paths between different processes or systems.

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    Message Channel Agent

    Software residing at each end of a channel, responsible for managing the communication link and ensuring reliable message transfer.

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    Message-oriented Communication

    A communication model where messages are sent and received asynchronously, stored in queues until consumed. This allows for loose coupling, reliable delivery, and decoupled senders and receivers.

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    IBM WebSphere MQ

    A popular enterprise message queuing system that allows applications to exchange messages reliably and securely across various platforms and networks.

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    Queue Manager

    A software component that manages the storage, delivery, and routing of messages within the WebSphere MQ system.

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    Channel

    A communication link between a client and a queue manager, or between two queue managers, responsible for message transmission.

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    MCA (Message Channel Agent)

    A process running within a queue manager that manages communication over channels, enabling efficient message transfer.

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    WebSphere MQ

    IBM's enterprise messaging system that enables reliable communication between applications, including asynchronous messaging, routing, and queue management.

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    Logical Name

    An alias used to refer to a remote queue, allowing for flexible and adaptable routing based on names instead of direct addresses.

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    Name Resolution

    The process of mapping a logical queue name to a physical queue address, enabling message delivery to the correct destination.

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    Routing Table

    A map that specifies the routes messages take based on their destination queue, facilitating efficient message delivery.

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    Continuous Media

    Data that changes over time, like audio, video, and sensor data, requiring continuous communication.

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    Stream Management

    Techniques used to manage continuous media streams, ensuring reliable and efficient delivery of time-sensitive data.

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    Discrete Data

    Data that is independent of time and exchanged as individual units, like text messages or file transfers.

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    Stream-Oriented Communication

    A communication paradigm designed for continuous media, where data is exchanged in a continuous stream, optimized for real-time delivery.

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    Buffering for Jitter Reduction

    Using buffers to store incoming packets temporarily, allowing for smoother playback despite network delays and uneven packet arrival times.

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    Packet Loss Impact on Streams

    Losing packets during transmission disrupts a continuous stream of data, resulting in gaps and interruptions in the received data.

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    Dealing with Packet Loss

    Techniques to address the problem of packet loss in streaming data. This could involve re-sending lost packets, using error correction codes, or employing stream synchronization methods.

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    Stream Synchronization

    The process of keeping different parts of a complex stream synchronized to maintain the integrity of the entire stream.

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    Substream Synchronization

    Ensuring that different parts of a complex stream, such as individual audio channels or video frames, remain aligned in time.

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    QoS (Quality of Service)

    A set of mechanisms to ensure the quality and reliability of data delivery, including error correction and jitter reduction.

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    Jitter

    Variations in delay between packets arriving at their destination. It can cause stuttering and uneven playback in real-time media.

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    Buffering for Jitter Reduction

    Using buffers to store incoming packets temporarily, allowing for smoother playback despite network delays and uneven packet arrival times.

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    Study Notes

    Overview of Communication Types

    • Layered protocols, remote procedure calls (RPCs), message-oriented communication, stream-oriented communication, and multicast communication are discussed.

    Layered Protocols

    • A layered protocol model is used in networking.
    • Low-level layers deal with physical transmission. (bits)
    • The transport layer manages actual communication.
    • Application and middleware layers provide high-level services.
    • The model has drawbacks, including focus on message-passing only, and potential for unnecessary functionality and violations of access transparency.
    • The basic networking model includes application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical layers.

    Low-Level Layers

    • Physical layer: details regarding bits and transmission between sender and receiver.
    • Data link layer: rules for transmitting bits into frames (error and flow control).
    • Network layer: describes packet routing in computer networks.
    • For distributed systems, the lowest-level interface is typically the network layer.

    Transport Layer

    • The transport layer is crucial for most distributed systems, providing communication facilities.
    • TCP (connection-oriented, reliable, stream-oriented communication)
    • UDP (unreliable, best-effort datagram communication)
    • IP multicasting is often considered a standard service, but can be unreliable.

    Middleware Layer

    • Middleware provides common services and protocols used by various applications.
    • Protocols for communication, data marshaling and unmarshaling, naming, security, and scaling mechanisms (replication, caching), are essential for seamless application integration.

    Types of Communication

    • Communication can be categorized as transient or persistent.
    • Transient communication is discarded if unable to reach its destination.
    • Persistent communication ensures message delivery by storing it for retrieval.
    • Synchronization points for communication occur at request submission, request delivery, and after processing by the server.

    Client/Server

    • Client/server computing relies on a model of transient synchronous communication.
    • Clients initiate requests and block until receiving a response.
    • Servers wait only for incoming requests and then process them. -Drawbacks include: Clients cannot perform other tasks while waiting, and failures must be immediately handled. This approach may not work for all types of communication (like email).

    Message-Oriented Communication

    • Message-oriented middleware facilitates asynchronous and persistent communication.
    • Messages are queued and processed by sender/receiver without immediate reply.
    • Middleware often improves fault tolerance and ensures messages aren't lost.
    • Concepts and methods of transient messaging, message-queuing systems, and message brokers to improve heterogeneous communication between applications in a single heterogeneous system.
    • Example: IBM's WebSphere, a popular messaging system.

    Transient Messaging using Sockets

    • A set of communication steps for transient messaging using sockets. The steps are as follows.
    • Create, bind, listen, connect, send, receive, close.
    • Methods to establish communication endpoints and send/receive data over networks (often based on standard protocol like TCP/IP).

    Message-Oriented Middleware (queues)

    • Queues act like buffers.
    • PUT adds a message to a queue.
    • GET retrieves a message from a queue and blocks until it's not empty.
    • POLL retrieves the first message from a specified queue.
    • NOTIFY: a handler is called when a message is added to the queue.

    Message Broker

    • Message brokers act as intermediaries managing application heterogeneity in Message Queuing systems.
    • They change the input format of messages.
    • They can be used as application gateways.
    • They support subject-based routing for more complex applications.

    IBM's WebSphere MQ

    • WebSphere MQ is a message queue system that uses queues for application-specific messages.
    • Queues are managed by a queue manager.
    • Message transfer requires channels.
    • Agents handle communication at each channel endpoint using lower-level networking tools like TCP/IP.

    Routing

    • IBM WebSphere MQ uses routing tables for logical access and name resolution to local queues.
    • These tables facilitate communication with remote queues when a client sends data to a remote location in the network.

    Stream-Oriented Communication

    • Suitable for continuous media like audio, video, and sensor data.
    • Stream-oriented communication involves timely delivery of values.
    • It supports various timing modes: asynchronous, synchronous, and isochronous.
    • Streams are unidirectional, have a single source, and one or more receivers.

    Streams and QoS

    • Stream quality of service (QoS) involves factors such as bit rate, maximum delay before transmission, maximum end-to-end delay, delay variance (jitter), and maximum round-trip delay.

    Enforcing QoS

    • Different network-level tools are available to prioritize and control packet delivery of streams.
    • Buffers can help reduce jitter effects
    • Packet loss management is a challenge when samples are merged into packets, to avoid corrupted data segments when communicating between systems.

    Stream Synchronization

    • Stream synchronization is crucial in systems handling multiple streams (e.g., audio/video).
    • Multiplexing into a single stream and demultiplexing at the receiver is a solution.

    Multicast Communication

    • Application-level multicasting organizes nodes into an overlay network for data dissemination.
    • Chord, using tree building, determines the responsible node for multicast data.

    Epidemic Algorithms

    • Epidemic algorithms for multicast are designed for eventual consistency of data between system nodes.
    • Update operations are handled by different modes based on the method (anti and gossip).

    Anti-entropy

    • Randomly selected nodes exchange updates to reach a consistent state.

    Gossiping

    • The node that is updated propagates information to other nodes by repeating in cycles. The probability of repetition is based on factors like network conditions, message propagation time.

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