Chapter 1. Communication Design Dimensions
Chapter Synopsis
Communication is fundamental to networked application design. This chapter presents a domain analysis of communication design dimensions, which address the rules, form, and levels of abstraction that networked applications use to interact with each other. We cover the following design dimensions in this chapter:
• Connectionless versus connection-oriented protocols
• Synchronous versus asynchronous message exchange
• Message-passing versus shared memory
1.1 Connectionless versus Connection-Oriented Protocols
A protocol is a set of rules that specify how control and data information is exchanged between communicating entities, such as application processes interacting within a networked ...
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