Showing posts with label data link layer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data link layer. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 April 2016

ISO OSI Reference Model

OSI Reference Model
1. Physical Layer-- defines electrical & mechanical specification.
-- deals with cables, connection, and signalling options.

2. Data Link Layer-- responsible for error free transmission.
-- converts input data into data frame.

3. Network Layer-- responsible for hop to hop transmission.
--allows heterogeneous network to  be interconnected.

4. Transport Layer-- provides end to end data transfer.
-- ensures that the pieces of data arrived in correct order.

5. Session Layer-- manage dialog control i.e. allow traffic in both direction.
-- another service is synchronization.

6. Presentation Layer-- concerned with syntax and semantics of information.
--responsible for encoding and decoding of data.

7. Application Layer-- supports remote job execution, file transfer, message transfer and virtual terminal etc.
-- supports function to control and supervise starte/maintain/stop of application program.