In telecommunications, the term protocol-control information (PCI) has the following meanings: The queries and replies among communications equipment to...

The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is a supporting protocol in the Internet protocol suite. It is used by network devices, including routers...

Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) is used, although Internetwork Packet Exchange Control Protocol (IPXCP) and AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP)...

The RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) is a binary-encoded out-of-band signaling protocol that functions alongside the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). RTCP...

protocol-specific control information and user data. In the layered architectures of communication protocol stacks, each layer implements protocols tailored to...

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol suite. It originated in the initial network implementation...

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a computer networking communications protocol in the transport layer of the Internet protocol suite. Originally...

Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol initiated in 1992 for international real-time exchange of information related...

to seven or fewer bytes per frame. The metadata is called the Protocol Control Information, or PCI. The PCI is one, two or three bytes. The initial field...

The Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) is a telecommunication protocol for signaling and call control in hybrid voice over IP (VoIP) and traditional...

Port Control Protocol (PCP) is a computer networking protocol that allows hosts on IPv4 or IPv6 networks to control how the incoming IPv4 or IPv6 packets...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). The Internet protocol suite is therefore often referred to as TCP/IP. The first major version of IP, Internet Protocol version...

The Routing Information Protocol (RIP) is one of the oldest distance-vector routing protocols which employs the hop count as a routing metric. RIP prevents...

Media Resource Control Protocol (MRCP) is a communication protocol used by speech servers to provide various services (such as speech recognition and...

The Network Control Protocol (NCP) was a communication protocol for a computer network in the 1970s and early 1980s. It provided the transport layer of...

A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of...

multiple protocol layers. In UMTS and LTE, those protocols are the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP), the Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol, and the...

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks...

proprietary protocols, such as Cisco Discovery Protocol, Foundry Discovery Protocol, Nortel Discovery Protocol and Link Layer Topology Discovery. Information gathered...

The Common Management Information Protocol (CMIP) is the OSI specified network management protocol. Defined in ITU-T Recommendation X.711, ISO/IEC International...

computer networking, the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a message-oriented transport layer protocol. DCCP implements reliable connection setup...

The media gateway control protocol architecture is a methodology of providing telecommunication services using decomposed multimedia gateways for transmitting...

with the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). For secure transmissions...

an application may instead use Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) which are designed for this purpose....

An authentication protocol is a type of computer communications protocol or cryptographic protocol specifically designed for transfer of authentication...

periodically send control information and QoS parameters. The data transfer protocol, RTP, carries real-time data. Information provided by this protocol includes...

separate control and data connections between the client and the server. FTP users may authenticate themselves with a plain-text sign-in protocol, normally...

numbers used by protocols for operation of network applications. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) only need...

foundational protocols in the suite are the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and the Internet Protocol (IP). Early...

AOP—Aspect-Oriented Programming AOT—Ahead-Of-Time APCI—Application-Layer Protocol Control Information API—Application Programming Interface APIC—Advanced Programmable...