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SWP

 

NAME

SWP (Sliding Window Protocol)

SPECIFICATION

L. Peterson and B. Davie. Computer Networks: A Systems Approach. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA (1996).

SYNOPSIS

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.

REALM

SWP is in the ASYNC realm.

PARTICIPANTS

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.

CONFIGURATION

SWP can be configured between any asynchronous, record-oriented protocols.

AUTHOR

David Mosberger



Larry Peterson
Mon Feb 5 16:32:40 MST 1996