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Protocol Alchemy: Designing a TCP-Based Approach to Support Large-Scale Deployment of VoIP on the Internet
White Papers Since the development of a new protocol specifically tailored for this application would be very unrealistic, the paper proposes an alternative strategy with minimal impact on the installed base. The starting point for the authors approach is TCP...
[December 20, 2007, 0:01]
SIP: Protocol Overview
White Papers The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol for initiating, managing and terminating voice and video sessions across packet networks. The protocol is published as IETF RFC 2543 and currently has the status of a proposed standard.
[September 2, 2008, 7:35]
Protocol Design Beyond Graph-Based Models
White Papers This paper sheds new light on the fundamental gap between graph-based models used by protocol designers and fading channel models used by communication theorists in wireless networks. Consequentially, it advocates studying models beyond graphs even...
[May 25, 2007, 1:00]
The Web Services-BusinessActivity - Initiator (WS-BA - I) Protocol: An Extension to the Web Services-BusinessActivity Specification
White Papers The Web Services Transaction protocol family includes the WS-AtomicTransaction and the WSBusinessActivity specifications in order to carry out distributed transactions in a Web Services (WS) environment.
[November 25, 2008, 23:00]
Protocol analysers are good for admin work
News Protocol analysers now top out at around $1,000, and some are even free -- and they can all make the life of a network administrator much easier. I'm going to explain how you can use various protocol analysers on your network to perform such tasks...
[April 18, 2002, 16:14]
Microsoft Windows 2000 Patch: NetBIOS Name Server Protocol Spoofing
Downloads This update resolves the "NetBIOS Name Server Protocol Spoofing" security vulnerability in some Windows-based networks and is discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-047. Download now to prevent a malicious user from misusing the Name...
[August 18, 2000, 8:00]
An XML-Based Protocol for Distributed Event Services
White Papers One difficulty they have encountered is that there is no standard format for the representation of performance information and no standard protocol for transmitting this information. To address this problem, the paper presents an XML-based protocol...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
A Backup Route Aware Routing Protocol - Fast Recovery From Transient Routing Failures
White Papers This paper examines the survivability of interdoamin routing protocols in the presence of routing failure events, and provides a backup route aware routing protocol that performs non-stop routing in the presence of failures.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Implementation of an On-Demand Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper presents their experiences in implementing and validating the on-demand EYES Source Routing protocol (ESR) in a real Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) environment. ESR is implemented in their WSN environment consisting of EYES sensor node...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
A New Prioritized Fast Handoff Protocol for Mobile IP
White Papers Mobile IP protocol has been designed to handle global and seamless user's mobility on the Internet. To reduce this latency, the paper proposes a new handoff protocol where it attributes a high priority to registration request datagrams.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Call Flows
White Papers This paper contains best current practice examples of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) call flows showing interworking with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Elements in these call flows include SIP User Agents, SIP Proxy Servers, and...
[December 27, 2004, 2:00]
Take a closer look at Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
White Papers This sample chapter, taken from CCNP BCMSN Exam Certification Guide, 3rd Edition, discusses the theory and operation of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). Learn about Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). Chapter: Chapter 9: Traditional Spanning Tree Protocol
[May 19, 2006, 1:00]
Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) and Message-Based Load Balancing (MBLB)
White Papers At the service provider level, the number of VLAN, TCP (or UDP) port, and IP triplet combinations is affecting the Session Initiated Protocol (SIP). Between servers, where the VLAN, TCP port, and IP variations are limited, the ephemeral ports are...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Transparent Protocol Translation for Streaming
White Papers This paper tries to benefit from a combined approach using a proxy that transparently performs transport protocol translation. The transport of streaming media data over TCP is hindered by TCP's probing behavior that results in the rapid reduction...
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
VLAN Load Balancing Between Trunks Using the Spanning-Tree Protocol Port Priority
White Papers The theoretical sections of this paper are related to Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP) and are platform independent. This paper provides the theory behind VLAN load balancing between trunks, and also provides configuration examples for switches running...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
White Paper: Simple Lightweight RFID Reader Protocol (SLRRP)
White Papers It then provides an overview of the "network side" reader protocol currently being developed in the proposed IETF Simple Lightweight RFID Reader Protocol (SLRRP) Working Group. This white paper provides an overview of the state of RFID reader...
[July 30, 2007, 0:11]
Simple Network Management Protocol
White Papers Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol designed to facilitate the exchange of management information between network devices. Today, SNMP is the most popular protocol for managing diverse commercial, university...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
A Location-Aided Power-Aware Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers However, it is also an inherently hard problem due to two important factors: First, the nodes may be mobile, demanding the energy-efficient routing protocol to be fully distributed and adaptive to the current states of nodes; second, the wireless...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Discoverer: Automatic Protocol Reverse Engineering From Network Traces
White Papers Application-level protocol specifications are useful for many security applications, including intrusion prevention and detection that performs deep packet inspection and traffic normalization, and penetration testing that generates network inputs...
[May 31, 2007, 1:00]
Understanding SIP: Today's Hottest Communications Protocol Comes of Age
White Papers The growing thirst among communications providers, their partners and subscribers for a new generation of IP-based services is now being quenched by SIP - the Session Initiation Protocol. An idea born in a computer science laboratory less than a...
[July 26, 2007, 7:00]
