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This paper describes an implementation of a software interface designed for use from within UNIX application programs for network communications. Thsi interface provides the abstraction of possibly very large datagrams supports ""scatter-gather"" facilities, and maintains standard network addresses consisting of pairs. This interface has been provided on different data communication facilities allowing uniform program access to those facilities. The particular implementation developed for a local area network is described and performance results obtained are examined and compared with those obtained from a conventional datagram interface to that network. The results obtained confirm that the abstraction of very large datagrams enables the construction of an efficient mechanism for process-to-process communications over the network that is not only more convenient, but also has significant performance advantages over the use of conventional (small) datagrams.
Author(s): Linton A, Panzieri F
Series Editor(s): Elphick, MJ
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series
Year: 1984
Pages: 15
Print publication date: 01/05/1984
Source Publication Date: May 1984
Report Number: 193
Institution: Computing Laboratory, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
