Communication Protocols

Drago Hercog received dipl.ing. (Diplome Engineer), MSc. (Master of Science) and DSc. (Doctor of Science) degrees in electrical engineering in 1974, 1984 and 1988, respectively, all from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He was employed by the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering from 1974 to 2015, finally as Associate Professor. He spent nine months with the high-tech electronics company AMI in Silicon Valley, California, USA, working on software for VLSI design. He taught several courses on communication networks and protocols, on mobile networks and on electromagnetic wave propagation at the University of Ljubljana. He also taught courses on communication systems and protocols at ESIGELEC and two other high engineering schools in France. He published two books in Slovenian language on electromagnetic wave propagation and communication networks, respectively. He wrote textbooks in French and English for the internal use at the high engineering schools in France. His most important area of research were communication protocols. He also published many papers in refereed scientific journals and conferences. He retired in 2015.

Introduction.- i. Specification of communication systems and protocols.- system specification and design.- protocol specification and design.- sdl language.- ii. Protocols and their properties.- communication service, communication protocol.- protocol stack.- communication protocol performance.- protocol analysis, simulation and measurement.- iii. Methods of message transfer.- coding and decoding of protocol data units.- segmentation and reassembly of protocol data units.- addressing.- distributed state management.- providing reliable message transfer.- flow and congestion control.- medium access control.- iv. Short presentation of some standard protocols.- hdlc family of protocols.- ppp protocol.- local area network protocols.- ip protocol.- arp protocol.- dns: distributed directory and protocol.- tcp protocol.- udp protocol.- sctp protocol.- protocols rtp / rtcp.- transport layer security.- some application layer protocols in ip networks.- Conclusion.