The OSI model is a reference system that explains how computers communicate over a network. It is important for computer networking because: - It divides the complex task of networking into seven ...

A tutorial on the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking reference ... computer networking was taking off, two separate models were merged in 1983 and published in 1984 to create the OSI ...

Abstract: The early successes of computer ... describes the OSI Reference Model. The OSI Reference Model is the highest level of abstraction in the OSI scheme. The paper first describes the basic ...