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- From: goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein)
- Subject: Re: new AAL (SSCOP?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.231642.7509@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA USA
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:11:42 GMT
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- Well, I'm back from T1S1!
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- Just in case anyone's wondering, SSCOP (service-specific
- connection-oriented protocol) is the service-specific sublayer that sits
- above AAL3/4 OR AAL 5 to create a connection-oriented data link
- service. You can run anything above it that wants local retransmission.
- For example, it will almost certainly be used for signaling (although
- some countries still prefer go-back-N procedures, since signaling is
- low speed). Or if you want "end-to-end ATM", it can be used to deliver
- a transport-like service.
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- SSCOP is a multiple-selective-recovery protocol. It can have moby
- windows (say, a 10 Gbps satellite link!) with lots of gaps being filled
- in as well as new data being sent. The semantics are basically
- "checkpoint selective recovery", though SSCOP is not quite aligned with
- the CSRDLC protocol that the OSI crowd is working on. Close, though.
- Note that SSCOP is NOT finished yet. We have a few details left to
- attend to. But the outline is pretty clear.
-
- Personally, I think datagramme services can use it too: If you have a
- lot of loss in the ATM layer, then TCP recovery (single selective
- recovery, at best) will not be very effective at high speeds over
- multi-hop (or other long delay) links. For pure local use, it might be
- overkill, but it's not so hard to build so why not?
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- Fred R. Goldstein goldstein@carafe.tay2.dec.com
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