Lecture 5:

Issues in internet

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Issues in the Internet
• Scalability
• Internet is growing* at 100-300%
• Running out of IP addresses – esp. LDCs
• Long term solution: IPv6
• 128 bit addresses (millions per square meter)
• Protocols and equipment are straining
• Security
• Distributed Denial of Service – example of an attack
• Viruses
• Spam
• Privacy
• Quality of Service
• Voice

Rahul Tongia, CMU 2

• Nature of Computer technology and Internet
technology has changed a lot in the past 10
years and will change a lot in the next 10
years

• Most of you in 1991 had not even heard of

Internet, World-Wide Web, Networks, Personal
Digital Assistant (PDA), Windows NT, Linux

• These are all now part of Computer

Technology and Internet technology
• What will we be talking about in 2011?

• What new Computer and Internet Technology

is being developed that will be commonplace
in a few years?

• Some things seem promising, but may

become equivalent of Betamax and 8-track
tapes

• Look at some areas of Computer and Internet

Technology development
Networking Technology
Power-Line Networking

Way to connect
computers in home
or office using
electrical wiring
 Power-Line Networking
• More convenient than phone lines
• Connect computer to network through the
outlet that provides power
• Data travels through electrical wiring
• Requires no new wiring and adds no cost to
electric bill
• Power-line networking is inexpensive method
for connecting computers in different places in
home or office
 Wireless Networking
• Creates network by sending infrared or radio
signals between computers
• Better than Power-line networking; some
computers are not “plugged in” to electrical
outlet
• Laptop with wireless network card is completely
portable throughout home or office
• IrDA (Infrared Direct Access) is standard for
devices to communicate using infrared light
pulses
Wireless Networking
• Infrared devices must be in direct line of
sight with each other (like TV remote…
which uses same infrared technology)
• Infrared is almost always “one to one”
technology
• Radio signals better because no line of
sight requirement and ability to broadcast
to multiple recipients
Bluetooth

• Very small radio module to be built into

each device
• Wireless: No need for cables or cords to
any device
Bluetooth
• Inexpensive: Should add only about $5-10
to price of product
• Simple: Devices find one another and strike
up conversation without any work on your
part
• Why is it called Bluetooth?
• Harald Bluetooth was king of Denmark
around the turn of the last millenium
• He united Denmark and part of Norway
into a single kingdom