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Software-based endpoint of network communications

A network socket is a software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network. The structure and properties of a socket are defined by an application programming interface (API) for the networking architecture. Sockets are created only during the lifetime of a process of an application running in the node. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Network socketA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Enhancing Wireless Sensor Network in Structural Health Monitoring through TCP/IP Socket Programming-Based Mimic Broadcasting: Experimental ValidationInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Computer NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Design and Implementation of Standby Power Saving Smart Socket with Wireless Sensor NetworkCited 26 times
  5. Go sideways: Berkeley socketsA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Port (computer networking)A closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun A software structure within a network node of a computer network that serves as an endpoint for sending and receiving data across the network.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Use
  2. Socket addresses
  3. Implementation
  4. Definition
  5. Tools
  6. Example
  7. Types
  8. Socket states in the client-server model
  9. Socket pairs
  10. History
  11. Sockets in network equipment

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

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