Transport layer protocols provide for end-to-end communication between two or more hosts.
This paper presents a tutorial on transport layer concepts and terminology, and a survey of …

Despite early attempts to use Ethernet in the industrial context, only recently has it attracted
a lot of attention as a support for industrial communication. A number of vendors are offering …

Featuring contributions from major technology vendors, industry consortia, and government
and private research establishments, the Industrial Communication Technology Handbook …

Ethernet is by far the most widely installed local area network technology, popular in both
homes and offices. It is fast, easy to deploy, and adapters are cheap. Most, if not all …

TCP and TLS are among the essential protocols in today's Internet. TCP ensures reliable
data delivery while TLS secures the data transfer. Although they are very often used …

The protocols and standards for networking are numerous and complex. Multivendor
internetworking, crucial to present day users, requires a grasp of these protocols and …

In this article, we first discuss QoS metrics of the data networks, followed by raising the
challenging problems for the next-generation Internet with high-performance and high …

Most modern network protocols give adequate support for traditional applications such as
file transfer and remote login. Distributed applications, however, have different requirements …

TCP and TLS are among the most essential protocols in today's Internet. TCP ensures
reliable delivery of data while TLS secures the data transfer. Following the layered model …

ST-2 is a revision of an experimental protocol designed to support applications which
require guaranteed network services. ST-2 provides mechanisms for creating streams …