Thursday 24 January 2013

COMPUTER NETWORKING-WELCOMEITBOOK

COMPUTER NETWORKING
TRAFFIC FLOW
In packet switching networks, traffic flowpacket flow or network flow is a sequence of packets from a source computer to a destination, which may be another host, a multicast group, or a broadcast domain. RFC 2722 defines traffic flow as "an artificial logical equivalent to a call or connection." RFC 36 defines traffic flow as "a sequence of packets sent from a particular source to a particular unicast, anycast, or multicast destination that the source desires to label as a flow. A flow could consist of all packets in a specific transport connection or a media stream. However, a flow is not necessarily 1:1 mapped to a transport connection."[2] Flow is also defined in RFC 3917 "a set of IP packets passing an observation point in the network during a certain time interval."




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  1. Wow.. very informative.. Bookmarked you for future reading. Thanks for sharing.

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