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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Computing – Communications and Networks - Protocol architectures


Protocol architectures
 Protocol entity
 provides a set of services, eg.
 connect, send
 data multiplexing/demultiplexing
 construction/analysis of PDUs
 execution of procedures
 Protocol unit (PDU)
 header: control functions
 opaque data
 Procedures
 actions to perform protocol functions: e.g. lost packet retransmission