Protocol Problems Associated with Simple Communication Networks
Abstract
Control or protocol information must generally accompany messages in a communications network in order to keep track of the beginning, end and destination of each message. Such additional data constitutes a network overhead, and occupies valuable network resources. For economic reasons it is important to keep this overhead to a necessary minimum. An efficient method for encoding protocol information, based on source coding, is applied to the coding of the beginning, end and destination of a message, and the results are compared to existing schemes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA032030
Entities
People
- Roger J. Camrass
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology