Title :
Towards a Protocol-Independent Internet Transport API
Author :
Welzl, Michael ; Jörer, Stefan ; Gjessing, Stein
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Abstract :
The conjoint API of TCP, UDP, UDP-Lite, SCTP and DCCP has a large number of choices and is quite complex. By requiring an application to specify the name of the protocol to use, it also constrains the implementation of the Internet´s transport layer. We propose to provide a common API that only offers the services that application programmers need to see, and we show how its design could be undertaken, ending up with an API that we believe is much simpler than the alternatives in use today. We also argue that this would be a very good way to get new transport protocols widely deployed.
Keywords :
Internet; application program interfaces; transport protocols; DCCP; SCTP; TCP; UDP lite; application programmer; protocol independent Internet transport API; Feature extraction; Internet; Quality of service; Reliability; Sockets; Transport protocols;
Conference_Titel :
Communications Workshops (ICC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-954-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-61284-953-9
DOI :
10.1109/iccw.2011.5963568