Title :
An X.400 message transfer protocol for EMCON network situations
Author :
Riechmann, Christian
Author_Institution :
FGAN-FFM, Wachtberg, Germany
Abstract :
This paper describes P Mul, which is a new X.400 message transfer protocol. Compared with the conventional X.400 message transfer protocol P1 P Mul has two essential enhancements: it allows the integrated X.400 message transfer to destination message transfer agents (MTA), which are for a certain time under one-way communication (EMCON) condition and therefore not able to communicate with the source MTA. Secondly, as P Mul is based on the connectionless transport service and supports multicast communication techniques it can save a non-negligible amount of network resources. Additionally, this paper describes an implementation of P Mul within the X.400 system PP and reports the results of evaluation tests
Keywords :
military communication; telecommunication networks; transport protocols; EMCON network; P Mul; X.400 message transfer protocol; connectionless transport service; evaluation tests; integrated X.400 message transfer; message transfer agents; military radio networks; multicast communication; network resources; one-way communication; tactical communications; transport protocols; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Military communication; Modems; Multicast communication; Multicast protocols; Radio network; Routing protocols; System testing; Transport protocols;
Conference_Titel :
MILCOM 97 Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4249-6
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1997.648752
