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What is Network Protocol ?

Course - Networking Fundamental

Published on 5 Dec 2020 at 04:67

NETWORKING PROTOCOL

Network Protocol are a set of rules which govern the communication, like what a structure of message, the process by which networking devices share their information about their identity or pathway with other network, termination and setup of data transfer session.
While data is been transfer from source (sender) to destination (receiver) it interact with many network protocol such as

1. Application Protocol : Hyper-text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
2. Transport Protocol : Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
3. Internet Protocol : Internet Protocol (IP)
4. Network Access Protocol : Data Link Layer and Physical Layer

Now, it a time to learn about above mentioned protocol in a brief, There is something known as networking model which define the representation of network operation. The networking model is not the actual network. It just gives us an idea that how the entire operation is take place.

There is two types of networking model OSI reference model and TCP/IP reference model. Well TCP/IP is more reliable and briefly discussed below. These all protocol layer are constituent of TCP/IP reference model.

Application Protocol

This protocol leads the representation of data to user, and also deals with the encoding and decoding of data.

Transport Protocol

This protocol supports the connection between two diverse devices across diverse network.

Internet Protocol

This protocol helps to determine the best path through a network.

Network Access Protocol

This protocol deals with the connection of all essential hardware devices used to build and to connect to the network.