I had an assignment at university that dealt with the size of a message after being sent through two different types of networks with different packet sizes and network headers. That's all we were ...

Voice over IP (VoIP) is the descriptor for the technology used to carry digitised voice over an IP data network. VoIP requires two classes of protocols: a signaling protocol such as SIP, H.323 or MGCP ...

IPsec is a suite of protocols that are used to secure internet communications—in fact, the name itself is an abbreviation for Internet Protocol Security. IPsec was first codified in the ’90s, spurred ...

A team of researchers from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe, have devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times -- without increasing ...

Researchers present a system for testing new traffic management protocols that requires no alteration to network hardware but still works at realistic speeds -- 20 times as fast as networks of ...

Computer engineers learn early on that a core set of protocols are critical to networks. Some of the most important protocols include Internet Protocol (IP), Transaction Control Protocol (TCP), ...

A computer network as we usually visualize it involves various cables (Ethernet, fiber optic, coaxial) connecting to appliances like routers and switches, which direct data packets where they need to ...