A layered networking protocol designed to minimize complexity

  • Authors:

  • Bill Hays;Larry C. Christensen;Gordon E. Stokes;Randy Stokes

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Science Department, 230 TMCB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT;Computer Science Department, 230 TMCB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT;Eyring Research Institute, Provo, UT;-

  • Venue:
  • CSC '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

The design of a networking protocol for the use in connecting heterogeneous computer systems is presented. The design describes a protocol based on a layered philosophy and provides for a minimum cost connections between the computer system in the network. For each layer of the network the design choices used in the network protocol are presented and a simple file transfer mechanism and message passing facility are presented with their interfaces to the network.