SWP (Sliding Window Protocol)
L. Peterson and B. Davie. Computer Networks: A Systems Approach. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1996).
SWP implements reliable, ordered message delivery using the sliding window algorithm. SWP expects exactly one other protocol to be configured on top and below of it (i.e., SWP does NOT perform any demultiplexing). Both protocols must be in the asynchronous domain and record-oriented. SWP currently does not convert between network and host byte order.
SWP is in the ASYNC realm.
SWP does not look at the header passed to it by the high-level protocol. It simply passes the participant list to the protocol configured below it.
SWP can be configured between any asynchronous, record-oriented protocols.
David Mosberger