This technical report describes a new protocol, the Unique Token Protocol, for reliable message communication. This protocol eliminates the need for end-to-end acknowledgments and minimizes the communication effort when no dynamic errors occur. Various properties of end-to-end protocols are presented. The unique token protocol solves the associated problems. It eliminates source buffering by maintaining in the network at least two copies of a message. A token is used to decide if a message was delivered to the destination exactly once. This technical report also presents a possible implementation of the protocol in a worm-hole routed, 3-D mesh network.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6809 |
| Date | 01 October 1991 |
| Creators | Dennison, Larry R. |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 78 p., 7136647 bytes, 2707449 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
| Relation | AITR-1294 |
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