CEN 4500C Fundamentals of Computer Communication Networks

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Application Layer Protocols

Earlier pages described protocols in general, network and internetwork protocols, transport layer protocols, session layer protocols, and presentation layer protocols. This page describes application layer protocols. Now we actually get to do something!

• A. Distributed Databases
• B. Mail
• C. Distributed Computation
  • i. Hierarchical
  • ii. CPU cache
  • iii. User-Server
  • iv. Pool Processor
  • v. Data-Flow
  • vi. Contract Net
  • vii. Worms
• D. Distributed Operating Systems
  • i. Object-Oriented
  • ii. Shared Memory
  • iii. Remote Procedure Calls