Network Programming

Dr. Petru Florin Mihancea

Introduction to
Network Programming
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What is the goal ?
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What ?
Software system
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Software architecture
software decomposition into sub-systems
that provide some related set of services
[Sommerville, Software Engineering, 2006]
What ?
Software system
Sub-system 2 Sub-system 3
Sub-system 4 Sub-system 1
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Distributed software systems
a software system where the information
processing is distributed over several computers
[Sommerville, Software Engineering, 2006]
Network
What ?
Sub-system 2 Sub-system 3 Sub-system 4 Sub-system 1
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Distributed software systems
a software system where the information
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[Sommerville, Software Engineering, 2006]
Network
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The goal
learn how to implement
the communication between sub-systems
distributed over a computer network
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Network
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Sub-system 2 Sub-system 1
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Network
What ?
Sub-system 2 Sub-system 1
Communication
Infrastructure
Communication
Infrastructure
API API
Hides some communication details
at different levels of abstraction
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Goal
renement
... based on the interfaces (APIs) of several
existing communication infrastructures
Network
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Sub-system 2 Sub-system 1
Communication
Infrastructure
Communication
Infrastructure
API API
Hides some communication details
at different levels of abstraction
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