Multiplex communications – Communication techniques for information carried in plural... – Adaptive
Patent
1996-03-14
1998-09-01
Kizou, Hassan
Multiplex communications
Communication techniques for information carried in plural...
Adaptive
370474, 370505, 3952006, H04J 316
Patent
active
058020640
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a method for achieving alignment of the header fields of a specific layer, such as the transport layer header fields, at a receiving host. The receiving host determines a number of padding bytes that need to be added to the transport layer header for the fields to be properly aligned in the memory of the receiving host. This number is determined dynamically for each connection because different connections require different numbers of padding bytes. The number of padding bytes for a connection is determined by the receiving host from the first packet received for a particular connection. Specifically, the receiving host examines this first packet and determines the position of the first byte of the transport layer protocol header, and therefore, the number of padding bytes required to achieve 32-bit (or 64 bit) alignment. The receiving host communicates the number of padding bytes to the transmitting host. The transmitting host then adds the specified number of padding bytes to the beginning of the transport layer header for the subsequently transmitted packets for this connection. The format of the padding bytes is such that when the receiving host reads a packet it can determine from the first padding byte how many padding bytes are in the packet, and therefore, how many bytes to skip over.
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Bnimoussa A.
Kizou Hassan
Starlight Networks, Inc.
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