DocumentCode :
1019965
Title :
Trans: a reliable broadcast protocol
Author :
Melliar-Smith, P.M. ; Moser, L.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Volume :
140
Issue :
6
fYear :
1993
Firstpage :
481
Lastpage :
493
Abstract :
Trans is a novel reliable broadcast protocol for the data-link layer of the ISO protocol hierarchy. The protocol exploits the broadcast nature of the physical communication media typically used in local-area networks. A combination of positive and negative acknowledgment strategies with transitivity of positive acknowledgments provides reliable operation without requiring a separate acknowledgment from every recipient of a message frame. Trans achieves reliable communication despite a noisy communication medium and processor fail-stop, omission and timing faults. Multicast, rather than fully broadcast, communication is readily obtained by operating several subnetworks over the same local-area network or, alternatively, by including a destination address list in the header of each broadcast frame.<>
Keywords :
broadcasting; local area networks; protocols; ISO protocol hierarchy; Trans; broadcast protocol; data-link layer; destination address list; local-area networks; message frame; multicasting; negative acknowledgment; noisy communication medium; omission; positive acknowledgment; processor fail-stop; timing faults;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Communications, Speech and Vision, IEE Proceedings I
Publisher :
iet
ISSN :
0956-3776
Type :
jour
Filename :
260155
Link To Document :
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