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OSI model layer for packet routing
In the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking, the network layer is layer 3. The network layer is responsible for packet forwarding including routing through intermediate routers. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Network layerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Hydrogen bond network connectivity in the electric double layer dominates the kinetic pH effect in hydrogen electrocatalysis on PtInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Vehicular Communications: A Network Layer PerspectiveCited 269 times
- Go sideways: Internet layerA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Internet ProtocolA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Vehicular Communications: A Network Layer Perspective
A transport network layer based on optical network elements
Reliable Physical Layer Network Coding
Asynchronous Physical-Layer Network Coding
Network Layer Aspects of Permissionless Blockchains
Implementation of physical-layer network coding
SimQN: A Network-Layer Simulator for the Quantum Network Investigation
Multifeedback-Layer Neural Network
🆕 Influential since 2022
Hydrogen bond network connectivity in the electric double layer dominates the kinetic pH effect in hydrogen electrocatalysis on Pt
Synthesis of a monolayer fullerene network
A few-layer covalent network of fullerenes
Upper cortical layer–driven network impairment in schizophrenia
Network dynamics in university-industry collaboration: a collaboration-knowledge dual-layer network perspective
📚 Books worth reading
Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor NetworksRaja Jurdak · 2007
Information Technology. Open Systems Interconnection. Tutorial on Naming and AddressingBritish Standards Institution
Wireless networksCristina Comaniciu
Wireless networks · 2005
Agenda 21 Earth SummitUnited Nations. · 1992
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