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Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 5e Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie Chapter 2 Getting Connected Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All rights Reserved 1  Chapter 2 Problems In Chapter 1 we saw networks con...

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, 5e Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie Chapter 2 Getting Connected Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All rights Reserved 1  Chapter 2 Problems In Chapter 1 we saw networks consists of links interconnecting nodes. How to connect two nodes together? We also introduced the concept of “cloud” abstractions to represent a network without revealing its internal complexities. How to connect a host to a cloud? 2  Chapter 2 Chapter Outline Perspectives on Connecting nodes Encoding Framing Error Detection Reliable Transmission Ethernet and Multiple Access Networks Wireless Networks 3  Chapter 2 Chapter Goal Exploring different communication medium over which we can send data Understanding the issue of encoding bits onto transmission medium so that they can be understood by the receiving end Discussing the matter of delineating the sequence of bits transmitted over the link into complete messages that can be delivered to the end node Discussing different technique to detect transmission errors and take the appropriate action 4  Chapter 2 Chapter Goal (contd.) Discussing the issue of making the links reliable in spite of transmission problems Introducing Media Access Control Problem Introducing Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) networks Introducing Wireless Networks with different available technologies and protocol 5  Chapter 2 Perspectives on Connecting An end-user’s view of the Internet 6  Chapter 2 Link Capacity and Shannon-Hartley Theorem Gives the upper bound to the capacity of a link in terms of bits per second (bps) as a function of signal-to-noise ratio of the link measured in decibels (dB). C = Blog2(1+S/N) Where B = 3300 – 300 = 3000Hz, S is the signal power, N the average noise. The signal to noise ratio (S/N) is measured in decibels is related to dB = 10 x log10(S/N). If there is 30dB of noise then S/N = 1000. Now C = 3000 x log2(1001) = 30kbps. How can we get 56kbps? 7  Chapter 2 Links All practical links rely on some sort of electromagnetic radiation propagating through a medium or, in some cases, through free space One way to characterize links, then, is by the medium they use Typically copper wire in some form (as in Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and coaxial cable), Optical fiber (as in both commercial fiber-to-the home services and many long-distance links in the Internet’s backbone), or Air/free space (for wireless links) 8  Chapter 2 Links Another important link characteristic is the frequency Measured in hertz, with which the electromagnetic waves oscillate Distance between the adjacent pair of maxima or minima of a wave measured in meters is called wavelength Speed of light divided by frequency gives the wavelength. Frequency on a copper cable range from 300Hz to 3300Hz; Wavelength for 300Hz wave through copper is speed of light on a copper / frequency 2/3 x 3 x 108 /300 = 667 x 103 meters. Placing binary data on a signal is called encoding. Modulation involves modifying the signals in terms of their frequency, amplitude, and phase. 9  Chapter 2 Links Electromagnetic spectrum 10  Chapter 2 Links Common services available to connect your home 11  Chapter 2 Encoding Signals travel between signaling components; bits flow between adaptors NRZ encoding of a bit stream 12  Chapter 2 Encoding Problem with NRZ Baseline wander The receiver keeps an average of the signals it has seen so far Uses the average to distinguish between low and high signal When a signal is significantly low than the average, it is 0, else it is 1 Too many consecutive 0’s and 1’s cause this average to change, making it difficult to detect 13  Chapter 2 Encoding Problem with NRZ Clock recovery Frequent transition from high to low or vice versa are necessary to enable clock recovery Both the sending and decoding process is driven by a clock Every clock cycle, the sender transmits a bit and the receiver recovers a bit The sender and receiver have to be precisely synchronized 14  Chapter 2 Encoding NRZI Non Return to Zero Inverted Sender makes a transition from the current signal to encode 1 and stay at the current signal to encode 0 Solves for consecutive 1’s 15  Chapter 2 Encoding Manchester encoding Merging the clock with signal by transmitting Ex-OR of the NRZ encoded data and the clock Clock is an internal signal that alternates from low to high, a low/high pair is considered as one clock cycle In Manchester encoding 0: low high transition 1: high low transition 16  Chapter 2 Encoding Problem with Manchester encoding Doubles the rate at which the signal transitions are made on the link Which means the receiver has half of the time to detect each pulse of the signal The rate at which the signal changes is called the link’s baud rate In Manchester the bit rate is half the baud rate 17  Chapter 2 Encoding Different encoding strategies 18  Chapter 2 Encoding 4B/5B encoding Insert extra bits into bit stream so as to break up the long sequence of 0’s and 1’s Every 4-bits of actual data are encoded in a 5- bit code that is transmitted to the receiver 5-bit codes are selected in such a way that each one has no more than one leading 0(zero) and no more than two trailing 0’s. No pair of 5-bit codes results in more than three consecutive 0’s 19  Chapter 2 Encoding 4B/5B encoding 0000  11110 16 left 0001  01001 11111 – when the line is idle 0010  10100 00000 – when the line is dead.. 00100 – to mean halt.. 1111  11101 13 left : 7 invalid, 6 for various control signals 20  Chapter 2 Framing We are focusing on packet-switched networks, which means that blocks of data (called frames at this level), not bit streams, are exchanged between nodes. It is the network adaptor that enables the nodes to exchange frames. Bits flow between adaptors, frames between hosts 21  Chapter 2 Framing When node A wishes to transmit a frame to node B, it tells its adaptor to transmit a frame from the node’s memory. This results in a sequence of bits being sent over the link. The adaptor on node B then collects together the sequence of bits arriving on the link and deposits the corresponding frame in B’s memory. Recognizing exactly what set of bits constitute a frame—that is, determining where the frame begins and ends—is the central challenge faced by the adaptor 22  Chapter 2 Framing Byte-oriented Protocols To view each frame as a collection of bytes (characters) rather than bits BISYNC (Binary Synchronous Communication) Protocol Developed by IBM (late 1960) DDCMP (Digital Data Communication Protocol) Used in DECNet 23  Chapter 2 Framing BISYNC – sentinel approach Frames transmitted beginning with leftmost field Beginning of a frame is denoted by sending a special SYN (synchronize) character Data portion of the frame is contained between special sentinel character STX (start of text) and ETX (end of text) SOH : Start of Header DLE : Data Link Escape CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check 24  Chapter 2 Framing BISYNC Frame Format 25  Chapter 2 Framing Recent PPP which is commonly run over Internet links uses sentinel approach Special start of text character denoted as Flag 01111110 Address, control : default numbers Protocol for demux : IP / IPX Payload : negotiated (1500 bytes) Checksum : for error detection 26  Chapter 2 Framing PPP Frame Format 27  Chapter 2 Framing Byte-counting approach DDCMP count : how many bytes are contained in the frame body If count is corrupted Framing error 28  Chapter 2 Framing DDCMP Frame Format 29  Chapter 2 Framing Bit-oriented Protocol HDLC : High Level Data Link Control Beginning and Ending Sequences 01111110 HDLC Frame Format 30  Chapter 2 Framing HDLC Protocol On the sending side, any time five consecutive 1’s have been transmitted from the body of the message (i.e. excluding when the sender is trying to send the distinguished 01111110 sequence) The sender inserts 0 before transmitting the next bit 31  Chapter 2 Framing HDLC Protocol On the receiving side 5 consecutive 1’s Next bit 0 : Stuffed, so discard it 1 : Either End of the frame marker Or Error has been introduced in the bitstream Look at the next bit If 0 ( 01111110 )  End of the frame marker If 1 ( 01111111 )  Error, discard the whole frame The receiver needs to wait for next 01111110 before it can start receiving again 32  Chapter 2 Error Detection Bit errors are introduced into frames Because of electrical interference and thermal noises Detecting Error Correction Error Two approaches when the recipient detects an error Notify the sender that the message was corrupted, so the sender can send again. If the error is rare, then the retransmitted message will be error-free Using some error correct detection and correction algorithm, the receiver reconstructs the message 33  Chapter 2 Error Detection Common technique for detecting transmission error CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) Used in HDLC, DDCMP, CSMA/CD, Token Ring Other approaches Two Dimensional Parity (BISYNC) Checksum (IP) 34  Chapter 2 Error Detection Basic Idea of Error Detection To add redundant information to a frame that can be used to determine if errors have been introduced Imagine (Extreme Case) Transmitting two complete copies of data Identical  No error Differ  Error Poor Scheme ??? n bit message, n bit redundant information Error can go undetected In general, we can provide strong error detection technique k redundant bits, n bits message, k LAF Discard it (the frame is outside the receiver window) If LFR < SeqNum ≤ LAF Accept it Now the receiver needs to decide whether or not to send an ACK 67  Chapter 2 Sliding Window Protocol Let SeqNumToAck Denote the largest sequence number not yet acknowledged, such that all frames with sequence number less than or equal to SeqNumToAck have been received The receiver acknowledges the receipt of SeqNumToAck even if high-numbered packets have been received This acknowledgement is said to be cumulative. The receiver then sets LFR = SeqNumToAck and adjusts LAF = LFR + RWS 68  Chapter 2 Sliding Window Protocol For example, suppose LFR = 5 and RWS = 4 (i.e. the last ACK that the receiver sent was for seq. no. 5)  LAF = 9 If frames 7 and 8 arrive, they will be buffered because they are within the receiver window But no ACK will be sent since frame 6 is yet to arrive Frames 7 and 8 are out of order Frame 6 arrives (it is late because it was lost first time and had to be retransmitted) Now Receiver Acknowledges Frame 8 and bumps LFR to 8 and LAF to 12 69  Chapter 2 Issues with Sliding Window Protocol When timeout occurs, the amount of data in transit decreases Since the sender is unable to advance its window When the packet loss occurs, this scheme is no longer keeping the pipe full The longer it takes to notice that a packet loss has occurred, the more severe the problem becomes How to improve this Negative Acknowledgement (NAK) Additional Acknowledgement Selective Acknowledgement 70  Chapter 2 Issues with Sliding Window Protocol Negative Acknowledgement (NAK) Receiver sends NAK for frame 6 when frame 7 arrive (in the previous example) However this is unnecessary since sender’s timeout mechanism will be sufficient to catch the situation Additional Acknowledgement Receiver sends additional ACK for frame 5 when frame 7 arrives Sender uses duplicate ACK as a clue for frame loss Selective Acknowledgement Receiver will acknowledge exactly those frames it has received, rather than the highest number frames Receiver will acknowledge frames 7 and 8 Sender knows frame 6 is lost Sender can keep the pipe full (additional complexity) 71  Chapter 2 Issues with Sliding Window Protocol How to select the window size SWS is easy to compute Delay  Bandwidth RWS can be anything Two common setting RWS = 1 No buffer at the receiver for frames that arrive out of order RWS = SWS The receiver can buffer frames that the sender transmits It does not make any sense to keep RWS > SWS WHY? 72  Chapter 2 Issues with Sliding Window Protocol Finite Sequence Number Frame sequence number is specified in the header field Finite size 3 bit: eight possible sequence number: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 It is necessary to wrap around 73  Chapter 2 Issues with Sliding Window Protocol How to distinguish between different incarnations of the same sequence number? Number of possible sequence number must be larger than the number of outstanding frames allowed Stop and Wait: One outstanding frame 2 distinct sequence number (0 and 1) Let MaxSeqNum be the number of available sequence numbers SWS + 1 ≤ MaxSeqNum Is this sufficient? 74  Chapter 2 Issues with Sliding Window Protocol SWS + 1 ≤ MaxSeqNum Is this sufficient? Depends on RWS If RWS = 1, then sufficient If RWS = SWS, then not good enough For example, we have eight sequence numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 RWS = SWS = 7 Sender sends 0, 1, …, 6 Receiver receives 0, 1, … ,6 Receiver acknowledges 0, 1, …, 6 ACK (0, 1, …, 6) are lost Sender retransmits 0, 1, …, 6 Receiver is expecting 7, 0, …., 5 75  Chapter 2 Issues with Sliding Window Protocol To avoid this, If RWS = SWS SWS < (MaxSeqNum + 1)/2 76  Chapter 2 Issues with Sliding Window Protocol Serves three different roles Reliable Preserve the order Each frame has a sequence number The receiver makes sure that it does not pass a frame up to the next higher-level protocol until it has already passed up all frames with a smaller sequence number Frame control Receiver is able to throttle the sender Keeps the sender from overrunning the receiver From transmitting more data than the receiver is able to process 77 Ethernet Chapter 2 Most successful local area networking technology of last 20 years. Developed in the mid-1970s by researchers at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centers (PARC). Uses CSMA/CD technology Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection. A set of nodes send and receive frames over a shared link. Carrier sense means that all nodes can distinguish between an idle and a busy link. Collision detection means that a node listens as it transmits and can therefore detect when a frame it is transmitting has collided with a frame transmitted by another node. 78 Ethernet Chapter 2 Uses ALOHA (packet radio network) as the root protocol Developed at the University of Hawaii to support communication across the Hawaiian Islands. For ALOHA the medium was atmosphere, for Ethernet the medium is a coax cable. DEC and Intel joined Xerox to define a 10-Mbps Ethernet standard in 1978. This standard formed the basis for IEEE standard 802.3 More recently 802.3 has been extended to include a 100- Mbps version called Fast Ethernet and a 1000-Mbps version called Gigabit Ethernet. 79 Ethernet Chapter 2 An Ethernet segment is implemented on a coaxial cable of up to 500 m. This cable is similar to the type used for cable TV except that it typically has an impedance of 50 ohms instead of cable TV’s 75 ohms. Hosts connect to an Ethernet segment by tapping into it. A transceiver (a small device directly attached to the tap) detects when the line is idle and drives signal when the host is transmitting. The transceiver also receives incoming signal. The transceiver is connected to an Ethernet adaptor which is plugged into the host. The protocol is implemented on the adaptor. 80 Ethernet Chapter 2 Ethernet transceiver and adaptor 81 Ethernet Chapter 2 Multiple Ethernet segments can be joined together by repeaters. A repeater is a device that forwards digital signals. No more than four repeaters may be positioned between any pair of hosts. An Ethernet has a total reach of only 2500 m. 82 Ethernet Chapter 2 Ethernet repeater 83 Ethernet Chapter 2 Any signal placed on the Ethernet by a host is broadcast over the entire network Signal is propagated in both directions. Repeaters forward the signal on all outgoing segments. Terminators attached to the end of each segment absorb the signal. Ethernet uses Manchester encoding scheme. 84 Ethernet Chapter 2 New Technologies in Ethernet Instead of using coax cable, an Ethernet can be constructed from a thinner cable known as 10Base2 (the original was 10Base5) 10 means the network operates at 10 Mbps Base means the cable is used in a baseband system 2 means that a given segment can be no longer than 200 m 85 Ethernet Chapter 2 New Technologies in Ethernet Another cable technology is 10BaseT T stands for twisted pair Limited to 100 m in length With 10BaseT, the common configuration is to have several point to point segments coming out of a multiway repeater, called Hub 86 Ethernet Chapter 2 Ethernet Hub 87 Access Protocol for Ethernet Chapter 2 The algorithm is commonly called Ethernet’s Media Access Control (MAC). It is implemented in Hardware on the network adaptor. Frame format Preamble (64bit): allows the receiver to synchronize with the signal (sequence of alternating 0s and 1s). Host and Destination Address (48bit each). Packet type (16bit): acts as demux key to identify the higher level protocol. Data (up to 1500 bytes) Minimally a frame must contain at least 46 bytes of data. Frame must be long enough to detect collision. CRC (32bit) 88 Ethernet Frame Chapter 2 Ethernet Frame Format 89 Ethernet Addresses Chapter 2 Each host on an Ethernet (in fact, every Ethernet host in the world) has a unique Ethernet Address. The address belongs to the adaptor, not the host. It is usually burnt into ROM. Ethernet addresses are typically printed in a human readable format As a sequence of six numbers separated by colons. Each number corresponds to 1 byte of the 6 byte address and is given by a pair of hexadecimal digits, one for each of the 4-bit nibbles in the byte Leading 0s are dropped. For example, 8:0:2b:e4:b1:2 is 00001000 00000000 00101011 11100100 10110001 00000010 Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 90 Ethernet Addresses Chapter 2 To ensure that every adaptor gets a unique address, each manufacturer of Ethernet devices is allocated a different prefix that must be prepended to the address on every adaptor they build AMD has been assigned the 24bit prefix 8:0:20 91 Ethernet Addresses Chapter 2 Each frame transmitted on an Ethernet is received by every adaptor connected to that Ethernet. Each adaptor recognizes those frames addressed to its address and passes only those frames on to the host. In addition, to unicast address, an Ethernet address consisting of all 1s is treated as a broadcast address. All adaptors pass frames addressed to the broadcast address up to the host. Similarly, an address that has the first bit set to 1 but is not the broadcast address is called a multicast address. A given host can program its adaptor to accept some set of multicast addresses. 92 Ethernet Addresses Chapter 2 To summarize, an Ethernet adaptor receives all frames and accepts Frames addressed to its own address Frames addressed to the broadcast address Frames addressed to a multicast addressed if it has been instructed 93  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm When the adaptor has a frame to send and the line is idle, it transmits the frame immediately. The upper bound of 1500 bytes in the message means that the adaptor can occupy the line for a fixed length of time. When the adaptor has a frame to send and the line is busy, it waits for the line to go idle and then transmits immediately. The Ethernet is said to be 1-persistent protocol because an adaptor with a frame to send transmits with probability 1 whenever a busy line goes idle. 94  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm Since there is no centralized control it is possible for two (or more) adaptors to begin transmitting at the same time, Either because both found the line to be idle, Or, both had been waiting for a busy line to become idle. When this happens, the two (or more) frames are said to be collide on the network. 95  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm Since Ethernet supports collision detection, each sender is able to determine that a collision is in progress. At the moment an adaptor detects that its frame is colliding with another, it first makes sure to transmit a 32- bit jamming sequence and then stops transmission. Thus, a transmitter will minimally send 96 bits in the case of collision 64-bit preamble + 32-bit jamming sequence 96  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm One way that an adaptor will send only 96 bit (called a runt frame) is if the two hosts are close to each other. Had they been farther apart, They would have had to transmit longer, and thus send more bits, before detecting the collision. 97  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm The worst case scenario happens when the two hosts are at opposite ends of the Ethernet. To know for sure that the frame its just sent did not collide with another frame, the transmitter may need to send as many as 512 bits. Every Ethernet frame must be at least 512 bits (64 bytes) long. 14 bytes of header + 46 bytes of data + 4 bytes of CRC 98  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm Why 512 bits? Why is its length limited to 2500 m? The farther apart two nodes are, the longer it takes for a frame sent by one to reach the other, and the network is vulnerable to collision during this time 99  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm A begins transmitting a frame at time t d denotes the one link latency The first bit of A’s frame arrives at B at time t + d Suppose an instant before host A’s frame arrives, host B begins to transmit its own frame B’s frame will immediately collide with A’s frame and this collision will be detected by host B Host B will send the 32-bit jamming sequence Host A will not know that the collision occurred until B’s frame reaches it, which will happen at t + 2 * d Host A must continue to transmit until this time in order to detect the collision Host A must transmit for 2 * d to be sure that it detects all possible collisions 100  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm Worst-case scenario: (a) A sends a frame at time t; (b) A’s frame arrives at B at time t + d; (c) B begins transmitting at time t + d and collides with A’s frame; (d) B’s runt (32-bit) frame arrives at A at time t + 2d. 101  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm Consider that a maximally configured Ethernet is 2500 m long, and there may be up to four repeaters between any two hosts, the round trip delay has been determined to be 51.2 s Which on 10 Mbps Ethernet corresponds to 512 bits The other way to look at this situation, We need to limit the Ethernet’s maximum latency to a fairly small value (51.2 s) for the access algorithm to work Hence the maximum length for the Ethernet is on the order of 2500 m. Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 102  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm Once an adaptor has detected a collision, and stopped its transmission, it waits a certain amount of time and tries again. Each time the adaptor tries to transmit but fails, it doubles the amount of time it waits before trying again. This strategy of doubling the delay interval between each retransmission attempt is known as Exponential Backoff. 103  Chapter 2 Ethernet Transmitter Algorithm The adaptor first delays either 0 or 51.2 s, selected at random. If this effort fails, it then waits 0, 51.2, 102.4, 153.6 s (selected randomly) before trying again; This is k * 51.2 for k = 0, 1, 2, 3 After the third collision, it waits k * 51.2 for k = 0…23 – 1 (again selected at random). In general, the algorithm randomly selects a k between 0 and 2n – 1 and waits for k * 51.2 s, where n is the number of collisions experienced so far. 104  Chapter 2 Experience with Ethernet Ethernets work best under lightly loaded conditions. Under heavy loads, too much of the network’s capacity is wasted by collisions. Most Ethernets are used in a conservative way. Have fewer than 200 hosts connected to them which is far fewer than the maximum of 1024. Most Ethernets are far shorter than 2500m with a round-trip delay of closer to 5 s than 51.2 s. Ethernets are easy to administer and maintain. There are no switches that can fail and no routing and configuration tables that have to be kept up-to-date. It is easy to add a new host to the network. It is inexpensive. Cable is cheap, and only other cost is the network adaptor on each host. Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 105  Chapter 2 Wireless Links Wireless links transmit electromagnetic signals Radio, microwave, infrared Wireless links all share the same “wire” (so to speak) The challenge is to share it efficiently without unduly interfering with each other Most of this sharing is accomplished by dividing the “wire” along the dimensions of frequency and space Exclusive use of a particular frequency in a particular geographic area may be allocated to an individual entity such as a corporation 106  Chapter 2 Wireless Links These allocations are determined by government agencies such as FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in USA Specific bands (frequency) ranges are allocated to certain uses. Some bands are reserved for government use Other bands are reserved for uses such as AM radio, FM radio, televisions, satellite communications, and cell phones Specific frequencies within these bands are then allocated to individual organizations for use within certain geographical areas. Finally, there are several frequency bands set aside for “license exempt” usage Bands in which a license is not needed 107  Chapter 2 Wireless Links Devices that use license-exempt frequencies are still subject to certain restrictions The first is a limit on transmission power This limits the range of signal, making it less likely to interfere with another signal For example, a cordless phone might have a range of about 100 feet. 108  Chapter 2 Wireless Links The second restriction requires the use of Spread Spectrum technique Idea is to spread the signal over a wider frequency band So as to minimize the impact of interference from other devices Originally designed for military use Frequency hopping Transmitting signal over a random sequence of frequencies - First transmitting at one frequency, then a second, then a third… - The sequence of frequencies is not truly random, instead computed algorithmically by a pseudorandom number generator - The receiver uses the same algorithm as the sender, initializes it with the same seed, and is - Able to hop frequencies in sync with the transmitter to correctly receive the frame 109  Chapter 2 Wireless Links A second spread spectrum technique called Direct sequence Represents each bit in the frame by multiple bits in the transmitted signal. For each bit the sender wants to transmit It actually sends the exclusive OR of that bit and n random bits The sequence of random bits is generated by a pseudorandom number generator known to both the sender and the receiver. The transmitted values, known as an n-bit chipping code, spread the signal across a frequency band that is n times wider 110  Chapter 2 Wireless Links Example 4-bit chipping sequence 111  Chapter 2 Wireless Links Wireless technologies differ in a variety of dimensions How much bandwidth they provide How far apart the communication nodes can be Four prominent wireless technologies Bluetooth Wi-Fi (more formally known as 802.11) WiMAX (802.16) 3G cellular wireless 112  Chapter 2 Wireless Links Overview of leading wireless technologies Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 113  Chapter 2 Wireless Links Mostly widely used wireless links today are usually asymmetric Two end-points are usually different kinds of nodes One end-point usually has no mobility, but has wired connection to the Internet (known as base station) The node at the other end of the link is often mobile 114  Chapter 2 Wireless Links A wireless network using a base station 115  Chapter 2 Wireless Links Wireless communication supports point-to-multipoint communication Communication between non-base (client) nodes is routed via the base station Three levels of mobility for clients No mobility: the receiver must be in a fix location to receive a directional transmission from the base station (initial version of WiMAX) Mobility is within the range of a base (Bluetooth) Mobility between bases (Cell phones and Wi-Fi) 116  Chapter 2 Wireless Links Mesh or Ad-hoc network Nodes are peers Messages may be forwarded via a chain of peer nodes A wireless ad-hoc or mesh network 117  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 Also known as Wi-Fi Like its Ethernet and token ring siblings, 802.11 is designed for use in a limited geographical area (homes, office buildings, campuses) Primary challenge is to mediate access to a shared communication medium – in this case, signals propagating through space 802.11 supports additional features power management and security mechanisms 118  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 Original 802.11 standard defined two radio-based physical layer standard One using the frequency hopping Over 79 1-MHz-wide frequency bandwidths Second using direct sequence Using 11-bit chipping sequence Both standards run in the 2.4-GHz and provide up to 2 Mbps Then physical layer standard 802.11b was added Using a variant of direct sequence 802.11b provides up to 11 Mbps Uses license-exempt 2.4-GHz band Then came 802.11a which delivers up to 54 Mbps using OFDM 802.11a runs on license-exempt 5-GHz band Most recent standard is 802.11g which is backward compatible with 802.11b Uses 2.4 GHz band, OFDM and delivers up to 54 Mbps Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 119  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Collision Avoidance Consider the situation in the following figure where each of four nodes is able to send and receive signals that reach just the nodes to its immediate left and right For example, B can exchange frames with A and C, but it cannot reach D C can reach B and D but not A Example of a wireless network 120  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Collision Avoidance Suppose both A and C want to communicate with B and so they each send it a frame. A and C are unaware of each other since their signals do not carry that far These two frames collide with each other at B But unlike an Ethernet, neither A nor C is aware of this collision A and C are said to hidden nodes with respect to each other 121  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Collision Avoidance The “Hidden Node” Problem. Although A and C are hidden from each other, their signals can collide at B. (B’s reach is not shown.) 122  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Collision Avoidance Another problem called exposed node problem occurs Suppose B is sending to A. Node C is aware of this communication because it hears B’s transmission. It would be a mistake for C to conclude that it cannot transmit to anyone just because it can hear B’s transmission. Suppose C wants to transmit to node D. This is not a problem since C’s transmission to D will not interfere with A’s ability to receive from B. 123  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Collision Avoidance Exposed Node Problem. Although B and C are exposed to each other’s signals, there is no interference if B transmits to A while C transmits to D. (A and D’s reaches are not shown.) 124  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Collision Avoidance 802.11 addresses these two problems with an algorithm called Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance (MACA). Key Idea Sender and receiver exchange control frames with each other before the sender actually transmits any data. This exchange informs all nearby nodes that a transmission is about to begin Sender transmits a Request to Send (RTS) frame to the receiver. The RTS frame includes a field that indicates how long the sender wants to hold the medium - Length of the data frame to be transmitted Receiver replies with a Clear to Send (CTS) frame This frame echoes this length field back to the sender 125  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Collision Avoidance Any node that sees the CTS frame knows that it is close to the receiver, therefore cannot transmit for the period of time it takes to send a frame of the specified length Any node that sees the RTS frame but not the CTS frame is not close enough to the receiver to interfere with it, and so is free to transmit 126  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Collision Avoidance Using ACK in MACA Proposed in MACAW: MACA for Wireless LANs Receiver sends an ACK to the sender after successfully receiving a frame All nodes must wait for this ACK before trying to transmit If two or more nodes detect an idle link and try to transmit an RTS frame at the same time Their RTS frame will collide with each other 802.11 does not support collision detection So the senders realize the collision has happened when they do not receive the CTS frame after a period of time In this case, they each wait a random amount of time before trying again. The amount of time a given node delays is defined by the same exponential backoff algorithm used on the Ethernet. Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 127  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Distribution System 802.11 is suitable for an ad-hoc configuration of nodes that may or may not be able to communicate with all other nodes. Nodes are free to move around The set of directly reachable nodes may change over time To deal with this mobility and partial connectivity, 802.11 defines additional structures on a set of nodes Instead of all nodes being created equal, some nodes are allowed to roam some are connected to a wired network infrastructure - they are called Access Points (AP) and they are connected to each other by a so-called distribution system Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 128  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Distribution System Following figure illustrates a distribution system that connects three access points, each of which services the nodes in the same region Each of these regions is analogous to a cell in a cellular phone system with the APIs playing the same role as a base station The distribution network runs at layer 2 of the ISO architecture Access points connected to a distribution network 129  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Distribution System Although two nodes can communicate directly with each other if they are within reach of each other, the idea behind this configuration is Each nodes associates itself with one access point For node A to communicate with node E, A first sends a frame to its AP- 1 which forwards the frame across the distribution system to AP-3, which finally transmits the frame to E Access points connected to a distribution network 130  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Distribution System How do the nodes select their access points How does it work when nodes move from one cell to another The technique for selecting an AP is called scanning The node sends a Probe frame All APs within reach reply with a Probe Response frame The node selects one of the access points and sends that AP an Association Request frame The AP replies with an Association Response frame A node engages this protocol whenever it joins the network, as well as when it becomes unhappy with its current AP This might happen, for example, because the signal from its current AP has weakened due to the node moving away from it Whenever a node acquires a new AP, the new AP notifies the old AP of the change via the distribution system Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 131  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Distribution System Consider the situation shown in the following figure when node C moves from the cell serviced by AP-1 to the cell serviced by AP-2. As it moves, it sends Probe frames, which eventually result in Probe Responses from AP-2. At some point, C prefers AP-2 over AP-1 , and so it associates itself with that access point. This is called active scanning since the node is actively searching for an access point Node Mobility 132  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Distribution System APs also periodically send a Beacon frame that advertises the capabilities of the access point; these include the transmission rate supported by the AP This is called passive scanning A node can change to this AP based on the Beacon frame simply by sending it an Association Request frame back to the access point. Node Mobility 133  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Frame Format Source and Destinations addresses: each 48 bits Data: up to 2312 bytes CRC: 32 bit Control field: 16 bits Contains three subfields (of interest) 6 bit Type field: indicates whether the frame is an RTS or CTS frame or being used by the scanning algorithm A pair of 1 bit fields : called ToDS and FromDS Frame Format 134  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Frame Format Frame contains four addresses How these addresses are interpreted depends on the settings of the ToDS and FromDS bits in the frame’s Control field This is to account for the possibility that the frame had to be forwarded across the distribution system which would mean that, the original sender is not necessarily the same as the most recent transmitting node Same is true for the destination address Simplest case When one node is sending directly to another, both the DS bits are 0, Addr1 identifies the target node, and Addr2 identifies the source node 135  Chapter 2 IEEE 802.11 – Frame Format Most complex case Both DS bits are set to 1 Indicates that the message went from a wireless node onto the distribution system, and then from the distribution system to another wireless node With both bits set, Addr1 identifies the ultimate destination, Addr2 identifies the immediate sender (the one that forwarded the frame from the distribution system to the ultimate destination) Addr3 identifies the intermediate destination (the one that accepted the frame from a wireless node and forwarded across the distribution system) Addr4 identifies the original source Addr1: E, Addr2: AP-3, Addr3: AP-1, Addr4: A 136  Chapter 2 Bluetooth Used for very short range communication between mobile phones, PDAs, notebook computers and other personal or peripheral devices Operates in the license-exempt band at 2.45 GHz Has a range of only 10 m Communication devices typically belong to one individual or group Sometimes categorized as Personal Area Network (PAN) Version 2.0 provides speeds up to 2.1 Mbps Power consumption is low 137  Chapter 2 Bluetooth Bluetooth is specified by an industry consortium called the Bluetooth Special Interest Group It specifies an entire suite of protocols, going beyond the link layer to define application protocols, which it calls profiles, for a range of applications There is a profile for synchronizing a PDA with personal computer Another profile gives a mobile computer access to a wired LAN The basic Bluetooth network configuration is called a piconet Consists of a master device and up to seven slave devices Any communication is between the master and a slave The slaves do not communicate directly with each other A slave can be parked: set to an inactive, low-power state Copyright © 2010, Elsevier Inc. All 138  Chapter 2 Bluetooth A Bluetooth Piconet 139  Chapter 2 ZigBee ZigBee is a new technology that competes with Bluetooth Devised by the ZigBee alliance and standardized as IEEE 802.15.4 It is designed for situations where the bandwidth requirements are low and power consumption must be very low to give very long battery life It is also intended to be simpler and cheaper than Bluetooth, making it financially feasible to incorporate in cheaper devices such as a wall switch that wirelessly communicates with a ceiling-mounted fan 140  Chapter 2 Summary We introduced the many and varied type of links that are used to connect users to existing networks, and to construct large networks from scratch. We looked at the five key issues that must be addressed so that two or more nodes connected by some medium can exchange messages with each other Encoding Framing Error Detecting Reliability Multiple Access Links Ethernet Wireless 802.11, Bluetooth 141