This week’s topics
Protocols and protocol suites
- Protocols and protocol suites
What you will be able to do
- 1.3 Analyse protocols and protocol suites.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse protocols and protocol suites.
Study materials
Videos
- Protocols · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
- Network models · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
Further resources
- Workplace Software and Skills, 1.3: The Internet from Inception to Today · PDF · OpenStax Workplace Software and Skills (2023), 1.3 on how the internet and the web developed and how they work, pp. 32–35 · for registered students
- Introduction to Computer Science, 11.1: Modern Web Applications Architectures · PDF · OpenStax Introduction to Computer Science (2024), 11.1: browsers, web servers, HTTP and how web applications are built, pp. 560–577 · for registered students
- Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, 11.1: The Client-Server Model · PDF · Bryant & O'Hallaron, CS:APP 2e manuscript sample, 11.1: clients, servers and transactions, pp. 849–850 · for registered students
- An Introduction to Computer Networks, 1.12.1: Transport communications patterns · PDF · Dordal, An Introduction to Computer Networks, release 2.0.11, 1.12.1 on client-server and peer-to-peer patterns (a step up), pp. 33–34 · for registered students
- A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies · Open-access article · Androutsellis-Theotokis & Spinellis (2004), ACM Computing Surveys. Survey of peer-to-peer networks and how they differ from client-server. · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
