Chapter 5: End-to-End Protocols

Victory is the beautiful, bright coloured flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

—Winston Churchill

• Problem: Getting Processes to Communicate
• 5.1 Simple Demultiplexor (UDP)
• 5.2 Reliable Byte Stream (TCP)
  • 5.2.1 End-to-End Issues
  • 5.2.2 Segment Format
  • 5.2.3 Connection Establishment and Termination
  • 5.2.4 Sliding Window Revisited
  • 5.2.5 Triggering Transmission
  • 5.2.6 Adaptive Retransmission
  • 5.2.7 Record Boundaries
  • 5.2.8 TCP Extensions
  • 5.2.9 Performance
  • 5.2.10 Alternative Design Choices (SCTP, QUIC)
• 5.3 Remote Procedure Call
  • 5.3.1 RPC Fundamentals
  • 5.3.2 RPC Implementations (SunRPC, DCE, gRPC)
• 5.4 Transport for Real-Time (RTP)
  • 5.4.1 Requirements
  • 5.4.2 RTP Design
  • 5.4.3 Control Protocol
• Perspective: HTTP is the New Narrow Waist