Network service model

Q: What service model for “channel” transporting packets from sender to receiver?

• guaranteed bandwidth?

• preservation of inter-packet timing (no jitter)?

• loss-free delivery?

• in-order delivery?

• congestion feedback to sender?

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?

?

virtual circuit

or

datagram?

The most important

abstraction provided

by network layer:

service abstraction

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