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Communicating systems
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Protocol design
Systems engineeringConcurrent programmingCommunicating sequential processesFinite-state machineMealy
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Overview
- Communications system
- Information
- Syntax
- Semantics Semantics (computer science)
- Synchronization
- Communication
- Error recovery methods Error detection and correction
- Hardware Computer hardware
- Software
- Implemented Implementation
- Technical standard
- Programming language
- Algorithms Algorithm
- Protocol stack
- Internet
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- World Wide Web Consortium
- Wired Physical layer
- Mobile phone standards
- IEEE
- ITU-T
- Telecommunications
- Public switched telephone network
- Converge Technological convergence
- International Organization for Standardization
- Data flow diagram
- Program translation
Communicating systems
- Donald Davies
- Packet switching
- National Physical Laboratory National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
- Roger Scantlebury
- NPL network
- ARPANET
- 1822 protocol
- Bob Kahn
- Network Control Program Network Control Program (ARPANET)
- Steve Crocker
- Jon Postel
- Application software
- CYCLADES
- Louis Pouzin
- End-to-end principle
- Hosts Host (network)
- Virtual circuits Virtual circuit
- Best-effort service
- Transmission Control Protocol
- Bob Metcalfe
- Xerox PARC
- Ethernet
- PARC Universal Packet
- Transmission Control Program
- RFC RFC (identifier)
- Yogen Dalal
- International Network Working Group
- Datagram
- CCITT
- Rémi Després
Message encoding
- Human-readable format
- Plain text
- ASCII
- UTF-8
- Intel hex format
- XML
- JSON
- Parsing
- Improved bandwidth utilization Lossless compression
- File Transfer Protocol
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- Finger protocol
- Debugging
- Byte
- EbXML
- HTTP/2
- HTTP/3
- EDOC Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Basic requirements
- Maximum transmission unit
- Internetworking
- Connection-oriented communication
- Timeouts Timeout (computing)
- Half-duplex
- Shared medium
- Media access control
- Collision Collision (telecommunications)
- Contention Contention (telecommunications)
Protocol design
- Systems engineering
- Concurrent programming
- Communicating sequential processes
- Finite-state machine
- Mealy Mealy machine
- Moore machines Moore machine
- Combinatorial explosion
- Internet Protocol Suite
- Internet Protocol
- Connectionless
- Tunneling Tunneling protocol
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- Software design patterns Software design pattern
- Abstract Syntax Notation One
- ISO
- Augmented Backus–Naur form
- IETF
Protocol development
- Standards organizations Standards organization
- Binary Synchronous Communications
- IBM
- De facto standards De facto standard
- Monopolized
- Oligopolized Oligopoly
- International Telecommunication Union
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Radio
- Marine electronics
- NMEA
- Time-to-live
- Monotone decreasing
- Routing loops
- Open Systems Interconnection model
- Application layer
- Data integrity
- Presentation layer
- Session layer
- Transport layer
- Network layer
- Network congestion
- Data link layer
- TCP/IP layering scheme Communication protocol
Wire image
- Side-channels Side-channel
- Privacy Internet privacy
- Extensibility
- Authenticated
- Middleboxes
- Internet Architecture Board
Ossification
- Protocol ossification
- Network protocols
- Middleboxes Middlebox
- Encapsulated Encapsulation (networking)
- User Datagram Protocol
- Encrypting
- QUIC
Taxonomies
- Connection-oriented protocols Connection-oriented protocol
- Connectionless protocols Connectionless protocol
Bibliography
- Radia Perlman
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Gerard J. Holzmann
- Douglas E. Comer
- R. Braden Bob Braden
- Doi Doi (identifier)
- RFC Request for Comments
- M. Ben-ari
- C.A.R. Hoare Tony Hoare
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Hdl Hdl (identifier)
- IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
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Nodes186
Edges185
Triples78
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010753
Components1
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Communication protocol
Top relations
related to Standards organizations · 26
Communication protocol → Consortium, Electrical, Electronics Engineers, For, IEEE, IETF, In, Institute, International, International Organization, International Telecommunication Union, Internet, Internet Engineering Task Force, ISO, ITU, NMEA, PSTN, Some, Standardization, Standards
related to history · 22
Communication protocol → April, ARPANET, Bob Kahn, Donald Davies, IMP, Jon Postel, Keith Bartlett, National Physical Laboratory, NCP, NPL, NPL Data Communications Network, On, Protocol, Roger Scantlebury, Steve Crocker, The, The NCP, The Network Control Program, They, Under
related to Layering · 10
Communication protocol → In, Internet, Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol Suite, IP, Layering, TCP, The, Transmission Control Program, Transmission Control Protocol
related to Concept · 6
Communication protocol → In, Operating, Protocols, The, This, Transmission
related to Message encoding · 2
Communication protocol → Common, Communication
is a · 1
Communication protocol → system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information
related to Design patterns · 1
Communication protocol → Commonly
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Important terminology
protocol protocols communication internet network layer standards ietf may layering systems data design message use software transport tcp rfc system
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communication protocol | is a | system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information | 0.90 | text |
| IBM's Systems Network Architecture | instance of | Computer manufacturers developed proprietary protocols | 0.80 | text |
| ASCII or UTF-8 | instance of | often in plain text encoded in a machine-readable encoding | 0.80 | text |
| or in structured text-based formats such as Intel hex format | instance of | often in plain text encoded in a machine-readable encoding | 0.80 | text |
| XML or JSON.The immediate human readability stands in contrast with binary message representations | instance of | often in plain text encoded in a machine-readable encoding | 0.80 | text |
| which have inherent benefits for use in a computer environment | instance of | often in plain text encoded in a machine-readable encoding | 0.80 | text |
| ASCII or UTF-8 | instance of | which is limited to values corresponding to characters in a character encoding | 0.80 | text |
| EbXML | instance of | which translates into speed of transmission and interpretation.Binary message representations have been used in modern standards | 0.80 | text |
| HTTP/2 | instance of | which translates into speed of transmission and interpretation.Binary message representations have been used in modern standards | 0.80 | text |
| HTTP/3 | instance of | which translates into speed of transmission and interpretation.Binary message representations have been used in modern standards | 0.80 | text |
| and EDOC | instance of | which translates into speed of transmission and interpretation.Binary message representations have been used in modern standards | 0.80 | text |
| Communication protocol | related to Concept | The | 0.60 | section |
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