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 Analysis in Intrusion Detection Using Decision Tree
White Papers This paper proposes a combination of pattern matching and protocol analysis approaches. Network based intrusion detection are the most deployed Intrusion Detection System (IDS). They frequently rely on signature matching detection method and focus...
[July 11, 2008, 1:20]
Protocol Design for Anycast Communication in IPv6 Network
White Papers Furthermore, since there are no protocol standards or even consensus on routing control, inter-segment anycast communications are not yet available. Based on the findings, the Anycast Address Resolving Protocol (AARP) to establish TCP connections...
[October 31, 2004, 2:00]
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]
Protocol Overhead in GPRS
White Papers When data is transmitted over GPRS, various protocols in the GPRS protocol hierarchy add overhead to the data in the form of headers. This document examines an authentic GPRS FTP download session, comparing measured throughput rates with...
[October 4, 2003, 6:06]
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]
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS): Conformance and Performance Testing
White Papers Today’s communication networks and services are migrating to a converged paradigm centered on IP (Internet Protocol). MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) has emerged as a key enabling technology for this migration.
[April 2, 2004, 0:04]
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Additional Matching Rules
White Papers This paper adapts additional X.500 Directory matching rules for use with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Most of these rules are widely used today on the Internet, such as in support of the inetOrgPerson and Policy Core...
[June 24, 2009, 10:19]
A Formal Analysis of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
White Papers LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) directories are being widely used on the Web, for white pages information, user profiles, etc. Although many implementations of the LDAP protocol exist, the still lacking logical formalization prohibits...
[June 24, 2009, 10:19]
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]
Converged Internet Protocol Contact Centers: A Practical Business Perspective on the Opportunities and Challenges Ahead
White Papers Chances are, if the organization is not already using an Internet Protocol (IP)-based telephone system, it will likely need to consider implementing one in the next few years. The future of multi-site contact centers is clear.
[June 24, 2009, 14:59]
An Adaptive TDMA Protocol for Soft Real-Time Wireless Communication Among Mobile Autonomous Agents
White Papers In order to provide such information a real-time communications protocol must be used to prevent unbounded latency of message delivery. This paper describes such a communication protocol that adapts itself to the current conditions of the medium...
[January 5, 2006, 0:01]
YA-TRAP: Yet Another Trivial RFID Authentication Protocol
White Papers The proposed protocol (called YA-TRAP) involves minimal interaction between a tag and a reader and places low computational burden on the tag (a single keyed hash). Security and privacy in RFID systems is an important and active research area.
[February 20, 2009, 0:24]
Noisy Tags: A Pretty Good Key Exchange Protocol for RFID Tags
White Papers This paper proposes a protocol that can be used between an RFID tag and a reader to exchange a secret without performing any expensive computation. Noisy tags are owned by the reader's manager and set out within the reader's field.
[February 20, 2009, 0:24]
SCPS-TP, TCP, and Rate-Based Protocol Evaluation
White Papers Tests were performed at Glenn Research Center (GRC) to validate the operation of Space Communications Protocol Suite-Transport Protocol (SCPS-TP) relative to the Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems (CCSDS) specification, to perform a...
[January 15, 2008, 0:59]
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]
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]
Token-Ring Ring Status Statistics Protocol
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:Token-Ring Ring Status Statistics Protocol
[December 31, 2001, 6:00]
SCPS-TP, TCP and Rate-Based Protocol Evaluation for High Delay, Error Prone Links
White Papers This paper describes testing performed to validate operation of Space Communications Protocol Suite Transport Protocol (SCPS-TP) relative to the specification and perform a comprehensive comparison of SCPS-TP protocol options to IP based protocols.
[January 15, 2008, 0:55]



