telecommunications, a protocol data unit (PDU) is a single unit of information transmitted among peer entities of a computer network. It is composed of protocol-specific...

In the context of smart cards, an application protocol data unit (APDU) is the communication unit between a smart card reader and a smart card. The structure...

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an obsolete technical standard for accessing information over a mobile cellular network. Introduced in 1999, WAP...

and the application layer, providing process-to-process data exchange for applications. The technical standards underlying the Internet protocol suite and...

teleconference applications including WebRTC, television services and web-based push-to-talk features. RTP typically runs over User Datagram Protocol (UDP). RTP...

standards for network management, including an application layer protocol, a database schema, and a set of data objects. In typical uses of SNMP, one or more...

reliability but lengthens latency. Applications that do not require reliable data stream service may use the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) instead, which provides...

Modbus (or MODBUS) is a client/server data communications protocol in the application layer. It was originally designed for use with programmable logic...

much stricter rules of protocol interaction and rigorous layering. Typically, application software is built upon a robust data transport layer. Underlying...

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP /ˈɛldæp/) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining...

end-user network applications (with the exception of some diagnostic tools like ping and traceroute). A separate Internet Control Message Protocol (called ICMPv6)...

The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is an open standard application layer protocol for message-oriented middleware. The defining features of AMQP...

In computer networking, Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is a data link layer (layer 2) communication protocol between two routers directly without any host...

receipt of the MAP mo-ForwardSM message, passes the SMS-PP Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) containing the text message to the actual Service Centre...

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

for applications, such as text messaging, that exchange data as payload in the SIP message. SIP works in conjunction with several other protocols that...

allows transparent communication through equivalent exchange of protocol data units (PDUs) between two parties, through what is known as peer-to-peer...

several small communication protocols and an application layer defined by a device profile. The communication protocols have support for network management...

encrypts/decrypts data types from the application layer. Protocols such as MIDI, MPEG, and GIF are presentation layer formats shared by different applications. Association...

networking, a wire protocol refers to a way of getting data from point to point: A wire protocol is needed if more than one application has to interoperate...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries...

considerably faster protocol PROFIBUS DP (Decentralised Peripherals) was completed. Profibus FMS is used for (non-deterministic) communication of data between Profibus...

internal "secure element" that allows the transfer of ISO 7816 Application Protocol Data Unit commands to, for example, JavaCard applets running on the internal...

constantly communicate with their neighbors in the LAN using § Bridge protocol data units (BPDUs).: 388  Provided there is more than one link between two switches...

The Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is an application-level network protocol designed for multiplexing and packetizing multimedia transport streams...

The data link layer, or layer 2, is the second layer of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking. This layer is the protocol layer that transfers...

BOM—Byte Order Mark BOOTP—Bootstrap Protocol BPA—Oracle Business Process Analysis (BPA) Suite BPDU—Bridge Protocol Data Units BPEL—Business Process Execution...

transport protocol. It provided a datagram service with no guarantees of delivery. All application-level protocols, including the infrastructure protocols NBP...

cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network, such as the Internet. The protocol is widely used in applications such...

RV-C is a communications protocol based on the Controller Area Network bus. The protocol is used in recreation vehicles to allow house and chassis components...