When the ARPANET was designed in the late 1960s, it was outfitted with a Network Control Protocol (NCP) that made it possible for the very different types of hosts connected to the network to talk ...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) TCP is used to collect data from an application, perhaps a Web server, and to send that data to a Web browser at the other end. The TCP header contains a source and ...

At the time, the protocol in use was the ARPANET Network Control Program (NCP) host-to-host protocol, and the first five nodes added belonged to Bolt, ... RFC 793, Transmission Control Protocol.

Network control protocols such as SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), MGCP (media gateway control protocol) and Megaco (H.248) are real innovations, ...

Introduction to Network Protocol. Networks function and flourish because they deliver reliable and fast communication over large distances. And while people often marvel at the speed, it's the ...

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a transport-layer protocol that can be used on top of IP networks for end-to-end communications. SCTP is an IETF standard developed by the Transport ...