【概念解释】packet, frame,...

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[1] Definition of Network Units: Packet, Fragment, Frame, Datagram, and Segment
[2] Difference between Frame and packets in IEEE 802.11

1 背景

不同的OSI层 & 不同的协议都有自己的 specific units
the packet, fragment, frame, datagram, and segment, …
作为wireless领域的的phd candidate，目前还并不是很清晰这些units的具体定义以及互相之间的联系，因此专门写一篇笔记理一下

2 OSI model

先复习一下
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下面从底层向高层记录

3 Frame

frames are small parts of a message

It helps to identify data and determine the way it should be decoded and interpreted

frame有两种类型:
fixed-length and variable-length frames

variable-length frames需要规定起始符和结束符，fixed-length frame不用

4 Packet & Frame

The basic unit of communication between a source and a destination in a network. Data sent through the network is divided into packets, that are recombined by the destination devices.

packets结构如下
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Frame & Pakcet区别

The main difference between a packet and a frame is the association with the OSI layers

A frame contains more information about the transmitted message than a packet

Frames are not much different from packets. Frames contain more information about the data than Packets

越往底层，units包含的信息越多，越复杂。

In each network, there is a maximum size of the data to be transmitted called the MTU (Maximum Transmitted Unit). Packets can often be larger than the maximum size, so each packet is also divided into smaller pieces of data called fragments.

Fragment仍然属于网络层

When the network layer receives a packet, it checks the MTU of the packet. If the packet length is bigger than the MTU, the network layer checks the Don’t Fragment (DF) flag associated with the packet. If the DF flag is 1, we discard the packet. Otherwise, the network layer decides the size of the fragments, create the header, encapsulate the fragments within the header, and send them to the next layer 在这里插入图片描述
现在知道路由器是干啥用的了

5 Datagram & Segment

In a datagram, we divide data frequently and transmitted from source to destination without a predefined route. We also can’t guarantee the order of delivery to the receiver end.

While TCP uses packets in connection-oriented protocols, datagrams are used in UDP, making them carry less information since they don’t need to have a response message from the destination

In the case we sent an email using the UDP protocol, there will be no packets but datagrams. The information transmitted would be in the following figure:
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A segment is a broken piece of a packet with a TCP header in each of them

f we sent an email with a TCP connection, then the data that exists in the transport layer to complete the operation is an example of a segment. The email packet will then become:

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