COMMUNICATION TRANSPORT PROTOCOL FOR DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURES

摘要

A communication protocol in a layer two (L2) network switch comprises, in response to a service request by a source node, registering the source node for packet communication service. The protocol further comprises forwarding one or more packets from the registered source node to one or more destination nodes. The protocol further comprises receiving packets from one or more destination nodes and forwarding each received packet to a corresponding registered node.