A top-down exploration of networking using the 5-layer model and the TCP/IP stack. HTTP, FTP, DNS, BSD Sockets, concurrent servers, checksums, reliable transport with stop-and-wait, go-back-n, ...

These systems often lead to the exclusive use of the network infrastructure as well as vendor dependencies. Such networks handling time-critical data traffic are today separated from networks ...

Network meta-analysis allows one to simultaneously estimate relative effectiveness of multiple interventions, and has been described as part of the "next generation tool-kit" for evidence synthesis.