Messenger communication

Author

Coleman, James P H

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol., Northern Territory Univ., Darwin, NT, Australia

fYear

1995

fDate

3-7 Jul 1995

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

180

Abstract

The current model of computer communication is based on Shannon´s (1949) model consisting of a sender, a channel and a recipient, where the sender sends a packet of data, along a channel to the recipient. Usually there are two channels, one each direction, allowing data flow in both directions. A protocol can be understood as a procedure which enhances the quality of the message exchange. Messengers constitute a new and exciting methodology for implementing communication across a network. Messengers, and messenger communications have existed in embryonic forms for many years. At its simplest level, a messenger is an autonomous program that can spawn other programs and which can be transported and executed either across a network or on the local machine

Keywords

computer networks; message passing; protocols; Shannon´s model; autonomous program; channel; computer communication; local machine; message exchange quality; messenger communication; protocol; Australia; Context; Embryo; Encoding; Ethernet networks; Information technology; Navigation; Proposals; Protocols; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks, 1995. Theme: Electrotechnology 2000: Communications and Networks. [in conjunction with the] International Conference on Information Engineering., Proceedings of IEEE Singapore International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2579-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICON.1995.526041

Filename

526041