Google open sources 'Protocol Buffers'
News Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. Protocol Buffers could be useful for other organisations...
[July 10, 2008, 12:53]
Manufactured controversy
Talkback I have no beef with Protocol Buffers per se, and one of the later commenters in the story later answered the questions I had about the textual representation of the format in Google's API docs. Protocol Buffers.
[July 11, 2008, 22:15]
Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for TCP/IP
White Papers Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) for TCP/IP provides a way for routers to inform Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) peers that their buffers are filling due to congestion in the network. When routers become congested to the point in which...
[December 6, 2006, 0:00]
Performance Modeling of Network Coding in Epidemic Routing
White Papers With extensive simulations, the paper show that this model successfully characterizes these two protocols and demonstrates the superiority of network coding in opportunistic networks when bandwidth and node buffers are limited.
[May 20, 2009, 3:19]
How direct memory access speeds Ethernet
News The remote computer that's servicing the requests just needs to tell the network card where its buffers are -- everything else is handled by the hardware. One answer is to put as much of the protocol processing as possible into dedicated hardware...
[May 1, 2003, 16:37]
Is a satellite-based WAN connection right for you?
Talkback Advanced systems deliver consistent latency for VoIP, eliminating the need to further delay the voice in jitter buffers to smooth out the voice. Technology: TCP is a guaranteed delivery protocol. In my opinion, this article contains incomplete...
[April 15, 2004, 17:36]
