Data Link Provider Interface and its application

Author

Hong, Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Software Eng., JiangSu Autom. Res. Inst., China

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

28-31 Oct 1997

Firstpage

1645

Abstract

DLPI, Data Link Provider Interface, is a standard interface between data link service providers and users, which is based on the STREAMS mechanism. It implements three kinds of communication service at the data link layer: connection-oriented service, acknowledged connectionless service, and unacknowledged connectionless service. The paper gives a brief introduction of DLPI, and describes the communication service and primitive provided by DLPI, at last an application example is given to illustrate its application in network communication

Keywords

access protocols; application program interfaces; computer networks; network interfaces; open systems; Data Link Provider Interface; STREAMS mechanism; acknowledged connectionless service; communication primitive; communication service; connection-oriented service; data link layer; data link service provider; data link service users; network communication; unacknowledged connectionless service; Access protocols; Automation; Cities and towns; Data engineering; Data structures; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; Message passing; Open systems; TCPIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Processing Systems, 1997. ICIPS '97. 1997 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4253-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIPS.1997.669321

Filename

669321