February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
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Chapter 18
What is a communication channel? What is its connection to asynchronous programming?
Communication channels are used to denote both the physical wiring connection between different systems and the logical communication of data that facilitates computer networks. The latter is related to computing, and is more relevant to the idea of asynchronous programming. Asynchronous programming can provide functionalities that complement the process of facilitating communication channels efficiently.
What are the two main parts of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model protocol layers? What purposes do each of them serve?
The media layers contain fairly low-level operations that interact with the underlying process of the communication ...