Communication Protocols: Principles, Methods and Specifications

Introduction.- i. Specification of communication systems and protocols.- system specification and design.- protocol specification and design.- sdl language.- ii. Protocols and their properties.- communication service, communication protocol.- protocol stack.- communication protocol performance.- protocol analysis, simulation and measurement.- iii. Methods of message transfer.- coding and decoding of protocol data units.- segmentation and reassembly of protocol data units.- addressing.- distributed state management.- providing reliable message transfer.- flow and congestion control.- medium access control.- iv. Short presentation of some standard protocols.- hdlc family of protocols.- ppp protocol.- local area network protocols.- ip protocol.- arp protocol.- dns: distributed directory and protocol.- tcp protocol.- udp protocol.- sctp protocol.- protocols rtp / rtcp.- transport layer security.- some application layer protocols in ip networks.- Conclusion.