wan@idacom.cs.ubc.ca (Lawrence Wan) (09/16/89)
I am looking for some articles or papers in regard to OSI protocol implementation. For example, the common way is to treat each layer (the OSI 7 layer model) as a process. There is also suggestions to implement in a vertical slice (for example, the implementation can be split into receive and transmit processes with each process handling all 7 layers' functions. I am particular interested in the various partitioning possibilities. I am also interested in the partitioning of functions, for example, most implementation is consisted of a state machine with other utility programs such as decoding and encoding. I would appreciate anyone who can point me to some helpful references.