Chapter 12. Home Networking Protocols
When a user interacts with a Web server over the Internet using his PC connected through a home network to an ADSL line, IP packets are exchanged frequently across many different segments of a network connection. IP packets are encapsulated with Ethernet frames and again with ATM cells through the home network and the ADSL line and recovered by an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Many different formats of home networking physical layers discussed so far are designed to be used by communication applications mainly through a PC. Transmission physical layers usually provide only physical layer signaling and Media Access Control capabilities. Functions to utilize these physical layers such as Logic Link Control ...
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