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    Difference Between Packet Switching and Circuit Switching

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    Circuit switching reserves bandwidth for the duration of a call, establishing a dedicated physical path between sender and receiver. It guarantees continuous service but is inefficient for bursty traffic. Packet switching breaks messages into packets that travel independently through the network. It supports variable data rates and bursty traffic but packets may arrive out of order and experience variable delays. The OSI transport layer provides message segmentation, acknowledgment, traffic control, and session multiplexing. It accepts messages from above and splits them into smaller units, provides reliable delivery through acknowledgments, controls transmission rate, and multiplexes multiple sessions onto one logical link. The IP layer uses header information to keep packets in order. It fragments data if needed, indicates fragment order in

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    Circuit switching reserves bandwidth for the duration of a call, establishing a dedicated physical path between sender and receiver. It guarantees continuous service but is inefficient for bursty traffic. Packet switching breaks messages into packets that travel independently through the network. It supports variable data rates and bursty traffic but packets may arrive out of order and experience variable delays. The OSI transport layer provides message segmentation, acknowledgment, traffic control, and session multiplexing. It accepts messages from above and splits them into smaller units, provides reliable delivery through acknowledgments, controls transmission rate, and multiplexes multiple sessions onto one logical link. The IP layer uses header information to keep packets in order. It fragments data if needed, indicates fragment order in

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    Circuit switching reserves bandwidth for the duration of a call, establishing a dedicated physical path between sender and receiver. It guarantees continuous service but is inefficient for bursty traffic. Packet switching breaks messages into packets that travel independently through the network. It supports variable data rates and bursty traffic but packets may arrive out of order and experience variable delays. The OSI transport layer provides message segmentation, acknowledgment, traffic control, and session multiplexing. It accepts messages from above and splits them into smaller units, provides reliable delivery through acknowledgments, controls transmission rate, and multiplexes multiple sessions onto one logical link. The IP layer uses header information to keep packets in order. It fragments data if needed, indicates fragment order in

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    Question 1

    Difference between packet switching and circuit switching


    Circuit Switching

    Physical path between source and destination


    All packets use same path
    Reserve the entire bandwidth in advance
    No store and forward transmission
    Suitable for bulk data transfer
    Take time in establishing the connection
    No alternative route is possible in case of connection failure
    Charge is based on distance and time but not on data
    Used for telephone conversation

    Advantages

    Fixed delays, because of the dedicated circuit


    Guaranteed continuous service, also because of the dedicated circuit
    Circuit is dedicated to the call no interference, no sharing

    Disadvantages

    idle circuits are not used


    Difficult to support variable data rates and is not efficient for burst
    traffic .
    It takes a relatively long time to set up the circuit

    Packet Switching

    No physical Path
    Packet travel independently
    Does not reserve
    No bandwidth wastage
    Support store and forward transmission
    Not suitable
    No delay in establishing a connection
    Alternate routing of packets is possible
    Charge is based on data
    Is used by the internet

    Advantages

    can provide variable data rates


    better for "bursty" traffic
    High data transmission quality because the data distribution is
    checked and error detection is employed during data transmission

    Disadvantages

    Packets arriving in wrong order and Variable delays


    Packets may be lost on their route
    Switching nodes requires more processing power and require large
    amount of RAM

    Question 2
    Processes of the OSI transport layer
    The transport layer provides:

    Message segmentation: accepts a message from the (session) layer


    above it, splits the message into smaller units (if not already small
    enough), and passes the smaller units down to the network layer. The

    transport layer at the destination station reassembles the message.


    Message acknowledgment: provides reliable end-to-end message

    delivery with acknowledgments.


    Message traffic control: tells the transmitting station to "back-off" once

    no message buffers space unit out there.


    Session multiplexing: multiplexes several message streams, or
    sessions onto one logical link and keeps track of that messages belong
    to which sessions.

    Question 3
    How the IP layer keep the packets from getting misplaced

    Sender level: The IP adds a header of control information to each


    segment received from the TCP in order to form the IP datagram or IP

    packet. The data can be fragmented to smaller packets if necessary.


    Router level: And indicates the order in the fragment offset field of

    the header. Then it is passed down to the network access layer.


    Receiver level: Upon receipt the IP layer at destination will use the
    fragment offset for reassembly

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