OSI MODEL

OSI Model

Introduction:-The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a reference tool for understanding data
communications between any two networked systems. It divides the communications processes into seven
layers. Each layer both performs specific functions to support the layers above it and offers services to the
layers below it. The three lowest layers focus on passing traffic through the network to an end system. The
top four layers come into play in the end system to complete the process.

The main benefits of the OSI model include the following:-

Helps users understand the big picture of networking.

Helps users understand how hardware and software elements function together.

Makes troubleshooting easier by separating networks into manageable pieces.

Defines terms that networking professionals can use to compare basic functional relationships on
different networks.
Helps users understand new technologies as they are developed.

Aids in interpreting vendor explanations of product functionality.

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Seven Layers:-

1.) Application Layer

2.) Presentation Layer
3.) Session Layer
4.) Transport Layer
5.) Network Layer
6.) Data link Layer
7.) Physical Layer

Layer 1 The Physical Layer:-

Physical Layer is responsible for transmitting row bit stream over the physical cable. The physical layer
defines the hardware items such as cables, cards, voltages etc.

Components of the physical layer include:-

Cabling system components

Adapters that connect media to physical interfaces

Connector design and pin assignments

Hub, repeater, and patch panel specifications

Wireless system components

Parallel SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)

Network Interface Card (NIC)

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Functions:-
The physical layer, the lowest layer of the OSI model, is concerned with the transmission and reception of
the unstructured raw bit stream over a physical medium. It describes the electrical/optical, mechanical, and
functional interfaces to the physical medium, and carries the signals for all of the higher layers. It provides:

Data encoding: modifies the simple digital signal pattern (1s and 0s) used by the PC to better
accommodate the characteristics of the physical medium, and to aid in bit and frame
synchronization. It determines:

o What signal state represents a binary 1

o How the receiving station knows when a "bit-time" starts o How the receiving
station delimits a frame

Physical medium attachment, accommodating various possibilities in the medium: o Will

an external transceiver (MAU) be used to connect to the medium?

o How many pins do the connectors have and what is each pin used for?

Transmission technique: determines whether the encoded bits will be transmitted by baseband
(digital) or broadband (analog) signaling.

Physical medium transmission: transmits bits as electrical or optical signals appropriate for the
physical medium, and determines:

o What physical medium options can be used o How many volts/db should be used to
represent a given signal state, using a given physical medium

Layer 2 - Data link Layer:-

Data link layer is responsible for controlling the error between adjacent nodes and transfer the frames to
other computer via physical layer. Data link layer is used by hubs and switches for their operation.

Components of the Data link layer include:-

Network interface cards

Ethernet and Token Ring switches Bridges

Functions:-
The data link layer provides error-free transfer of data frames from one node to another over the physical
layer, allowing layers above it to assume virtually error-free transmission over the link. To do this, the data
link layer provides:

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Link establishment and termination: establishes and terminates the logical link between two
nodes.
Frame traffic control: tells the transmitting node to "back-off" when no frame buffers are
available.
Frame sequencing: transmits/receives frames sequentially.

Frame acknowledgment: provides/expects frame acknowledgments. Detects and recovers from

errors that occur in the physical layer by retransmitting non-acknowledged frames and handling
duplicate frame receipt.
Frame delimiting: creates and recognizes frame boundaries.

Frame error checking: checks received frames for integrity.

Media access management: determines when the node "has the right" to use the physical
medium.

Layer 3 The Network Layer:-

This layer is responsible for translating the logical network address and names into their physical address.
This layer is also responsible for addressing, determining routes for sending and managing network problems
such as packet switching, data congestion and routines.

Functions:-
The network layer controls the operation of the subnet, deciding which physical path the data should take
based on network conditions, priority of service, and other factors. It provides:

Routing: routes frames among networks.

Subnet traffic control: routers (network layer intermediate systems) can instruct a sending station
to "throttle back" its frame transmission when the router's buffer fills up.
Frame fragmentation: if it determines that a downstream router's maximum transmission unit
(MTU) size is less than the frame size, a router can fragment a frame for transmission and re-
assembly at the destination station.
Logical-physical address mapping: translates logical addresses, or names, into physical addresses.

Subnet usage accounting: has accounting functions to keep track of frames forwarded by subnet
intermediate systems, to produce billing information

Layer 4 - The Transport Layer:-

This layer is responsible for end-to-end delivers of messages between the networked hosts. It first divides
the streams of data into chunks or packets before transmission and then the receiving computer re-
assembles the packets. It also guarantees error free data delivery without loss or duplications.

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Functions:-
The transport layer ensures that messages are delivered error-free, in sequence, and with no losses or
duplications. It relieves the higher layer protocols from any concern with the transfer of data between them
and their peers.

The size and complexity of a transport protocol depends on the type of service it can get from the network
layer. For a reliable network layer with virtual circuit capability, a minimal transport layer is required. If the
network layer is unreliable and/or only supports data grams, the transport protocol should include extensive
error detection and recovery.
The transport layer provides:

Message segmentation: accepts a message from the (session) layer above it, splits the message
into smaller units (if not already small enough), and passes the smaller units down to the
network layer. The transport layer at the destination station reassembles the message.
Message acknowledgment: provides reliable end-to-end message delivery with acknowledgments.
Message traffic control: tells the transmitting station to "back-off" when no message buffers are
available.
Session multiplexing: multiplexes several message streams, or sessions onto one logical link and
keeps track of which messages belong to which sessions (see session layer).

Layer 5 - The Session Layer:-

This layer is responsible for establishing the process-to-process communication between the hosts in the
network. The interactive login is an example of services provided by this layer in which the connective is re-
connected in care of any interruption.

Functions:-
The session layer allows session establishment between processes running on different stations. It provides:

Session establishment, maintenance and termination: allows two application processes on

different machines to establish, use and terminate a connection, called a session.
Session support: performs the functions that allow these processes to communicate over the
network, performing security, name recognition, logging, and so on.

Layer 6 The Presentation Layer:-

The Presentation layer is responsible for protocol conversion, date encryption/decryption, Expanding
graphics command and the date compression. This layer makes the communications between two hosts
possible.

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Functions:-
The presentation layer formats the data to be presented to the application layer. It can be viewed as the
translator for the network. This layer may translate data from a format used by the application layer into a
common format at the sending station, and then translate the common format to a format known to the
application layer at the receiving station.
The presentation layer provides:

Character code translation: for example, ASCII to EBCDIC.

Data conversion: bit order, CR-CR/LF, integer-floating point, and so on.

Data compression: reduces the number of bits that need to be transmitted on the network.

Data encryption: encrypt data for security purposes. For example, password encryption.

Layer 7 - The Application Layer:-

The application layer provides different services to the application. Example of services provided by this layer
is file transfer, electronic messaging e-mail, virtual terminal access and network management.

Functions:-
The application layer serves as the window for users and application processes to access network services.
This layer contains a variety of commonly needed functions:

Resource sharing and device redirection

Remote file access

Remote printer access

Inter-process communication

Network management

Directory services

Electronic messaging (such as mail)

Network virtual terminals

TCP/IP Model

Introduction:-The OSI model describes computer networking in seven layers. While there have been
implementations of networking protocol that use those seven layers, most networks today use TCP/IP. But,
networking professionals continue to describe networking functions in relation to the OSI layer that

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performs those tasks. The TCP/IP model uses four layers to perform the functions of the seven-layer OSI
model.

The four layers of the TCP/IP architecture can be compared to certain levels of the OSI model. It’s important
to know what each level of the TCP/IP protocol architecture does, and how these layers map to the OSI
model. The Application Layer of the TCP/IP model performs much the same tasks as the Application,
Presentation, and Session layers of the OSI model. The Transport layer in the TCP/IP architecture is similar
to the Transport layer in the OSI model. This layer can use TCP or UDP as well. The TCP/IP model uses four
layers to perform the functions of the seven-layer OSI model.

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Four Layers:-
1.) Application Layer
2.) Transport Layer
3.) Internet Layer
4.) Network Layer

Layer 1-Application Layer:-

The Application Layer in TCP/IP groups the functions of OSI Application, Presentation Layer and Session Layer.
Therefore any process above the transport layer is called an Application in the TCP/IP architecture. In TCP/IP
socket and port are used to describe the path over which applications communicate. Most application level
protocols are associated with one or more port number.

Functions:-
Refers to standard network services like http, ftp, telnet as well as communication methods used by
various application programs
Also defines compatible representation of all data

Layer 2-Transport Layer:-

In TCP/IP architecture, there are two Transport Layer protocols. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
guarantees information transmission. The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) transports datagram without end-to-
end reliability checking. Both protocols are useful for different applications.

Functions:-
Manages the transfer of data by using connection oriented (TCP) and connectionless (UDP) transport
protocols
Manages the connections between networked applications

Layer 3-Internet Layer:-

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the primary protocol in the TCP/IP Network Layer. All upper and lower layer
communications must travel through IP as they are passed through the TCP/IP protocol stack.

In addition, there are many supporting protocols in the Network Layer, such as ICMP, to facilitate and manage
the routing process.

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Functions:-
Manages addressing of packets and delivery of packets between networks

Fragments packets so that they can be dealt with by lower level layer (Network Interface layer Network)

Layer 4-Network Layer:-

In the TCP/IP architecture, the Data Link Layer and Physical Layer are normally grouped together to become the
Network Access layer. TCP/IP makes use of existing Data Link and Physical Layer standards rather than defining
its own. Many RFCs describe how IP utilizes and interfaces with the existing data link protocols such as Ethernet,
Token Ring, FDDI, HSSI, and ATM. The physical layer, which defines the hardware communication properties, is
not often directly interfaced with the TCP/IP protocols in the network layer and above.

Functions:-
Delivers data via physical link (Ethernet is the most common link level protocol )

Provides error detection and packet framing

Difference between OSI Model and TCP/IP Model

The Internet Protocol Suite also known as TCP/IP is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet
and other similar networks. It is named from two of the most important protocols in it: the Transmission Control
Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which were the first two networking protocols defined in this
standard. IP networking represents a synthesis of several developments that began to evolve in the 1960s and
1970s, namely the Internet and LANs (Local Area Networks), which emerged in the mid- to late-1980s, together
with the advent of the World Wide Web in early 1990s.

The Internet Protocol Suite, like many protocol suites, may be viewed as a set of layers. Each layer solves a set of
problems involving the transmission of data, and provides a well-defined service to the upper layer protocols
based on using services from some lower layers. Upper layers are logically closer to the user and deal with more
abstract data, relying on lower layer protocols to translate data into forms that can eventually be physically
transmitted.

The main difference in two models is:-

The OSI model consists of 7 architectural layers whereas the TCP/IP only has 4 layers.
OSI is a reference model and TCP/IP is an implementation of OSI model.
TCP/IP Protocols are considered to be standards around which the internet has developed.
The OSI model however is a "generic, protocol-independent standard."

. TCP/IP combines the presentation and session layer issues into its application layer.

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TCP/IP combines the OSI data link and physical layers into the network access layer.
TCP/IP appears to be a simpler model and this is mainly due to the fact that it has fewer layers.
S.no OSI Model TCP/IP Model

1 OSI stand for the open system
interconnection. It is called because of it
allows any two different systems to
communicate regardless of their
architecture.
TCP/IP stands for transmission control
protocol/internet protocol. It is named after
these two protocols, being part of this model

2 OSI model has seven layers physical, data TCP/IP Model has four layers host-
link, network, transport session tonetwork layer, network transport and
presentation and application layer application layer

3 Session and presentation layers are present Session and presentation layers are not
in this model present in this model

4 This model provides clear distinction This model does not provides clear
between services, interfaces and protocols distinction between services, interfaces and
protocols

5 In this model protocols does not fit well in to In this model protocols fits well in to the
the model model

6 OSI model supports both connection and TCP/IP model supports only
connectionless oriented communication in communication in
connectionless
network layer
network layer

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