Network Protocols
Network
Protocols
1. IMAP: The Internet Message Access
Protocol (commonly known as IMAP) is an Application
Layer Internet protocol that allows an e-mail client
to access e-mail
on a remote mail server. IMAP supports both on-line and off-line modes of operation.
E-mail clients using IMAP generally leave messages on the server until the user
explicitly deletes them. IMAP offers access to the mail storage. Clients may
store local copies of the messages, but these are considered to be a temporary
cache.
2. Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP): is an Internet
standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet
Protocol (IP) networks. SMTP is a connection-oriented, text-based protocol in which a mail sender
communicates with a mail receiver by issuing command strings and supplying
necessary data over a reliable ordered data stream channel, typically a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
connection. An SMTP session consists of commands originated by an SMTP client (the initiating agent,
sender, or transmitter) and corresponding responses from the SMTP server (the listening agent, or receiver) so
that the session is opened, and session parameters are exchanged.
3. Post Office Protocol (POP): The Post
Office Protocol (POP) is an application-layer
Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail
clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server
over a TCP/IP connection. The POP protocol has
been developed through several versions, with version 3 (POP3) being the current
standard. Like IMAP, POP3 is supported by most webmail
services such as Hotmail,
Gmail
and Yahoo! Mail.
4. GSM
(Global System for Mobile Communications): is a standard set developed
by the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe
technologies for second generation (2G) digital cellular
networks. Developed as a replacement for first generation (1G)
analog cellular networks, the GSM standard originally described a digital,
circuit switched network optimized for full duplex voice telephony.
The standard was expanded over time to include first circuit switched data
transport, then packet data transport via GPRS (General Packet Radio
Services). Packet data transmission speeds were later increased via EDGE (Enhanced Data rates
for GSM Evolution) referred as EGPRS.
5. File
Transfer Protocol (FTP): is a standard network
protocol used to transfer files from one host
to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet.
It is often used to upload web pages and other documents from a private
development machine to a public web-hosting server. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and uses separate
control and data connections between the client and the server.
6. Point-to-Point
Protocol (PPP): is a data link
protocol commonly used in establishing a
direct connection between two networking nodes. It can provide connection authentication,
transmission encryption and compression.
PPP is used over many types of physical networks.
7. General
packet radio service (GPRS): is a packet
oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system. GPRS usage
is typically charged based on volume of data. This contrasts with circuit
switching data, which is typically billed per minute of connection
time, regardless of whether or not the user transfers data during that period.
8. Code
division multiple access (CDMA): is a channel access method used by various
radio communication technologies. It should not be confused with the mobile phone standards
called cdmaOne,
CDMA2000
(the 3G evolution of
cdmaOne) and WCDMA
(the 3G standard used by GSM
carriers), which are often referred to as simply CDMA, and use CDMA as an
underlying channel access method.
One of the concepts in data
communication is the idea of allowing several transmitters to send information
simultaneously over a single communication channel. CDMA allows several users to share a band of
frequencies.
9. TCP/IP: The Internet protocol suite is
the set of communications protocols used for the Internet
and other similar networks. It is commonly known as TCP/IP, because of its most
important protocols: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet
Protocol (IP), which were the first networking protocols defined in
this standard.
10. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is
one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite. TCP is one of the
two original components of the suite, complementing the Internet
Protocol (IP), and therefore the entire suite is commonly referred
to as TCP/IP. TCP provides reliable, ordered delivery of a stream of bytes from
a program on one computer to another program on another computer. TCP is the
protocol that major Internet applications such as the World Wide
Web, email,
remote administration and file transfer
rely on. Other applications, which do not require reliable data stream service,
may use the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which
provides a datagram
service that emphasizes reduced latency over reliability.
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