• The Application Layer: Common Elements
  • Common needs of applications
  • Association and Shared Context
    • Association: Concepts and Processes
    • ACSE: The Service
      • Association Establishment
      • Closing the Association
    • ACSE: The Protocol
  • Remote operation of instructions
    • Concepts and Processes
    • ROSE: The Service
    • ROSE: The Protocol
    • An Example using ROSE
  • Reliable transfer of information
    • Reliable Transfer: Concepts and Processes
    • RTSE: The Service
      • Association Establishment
      • Data Transfer
      • Association Termination
    • RTSE: The Protocol
    • Services required by RTSE
  • Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery
    • CCR: Concepts and Processes
    • CCR: The Service
      • Delineating the transaction
      • Response to a request for a Transaction
      • Complete or cancel the transaction
    • CCR - The Protocol
  • Some common tools from the TCP/IP environment
    • PING
    • Traceroute
  • Summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter Appendix: Extra Details for Reference
    • Parameters of ACSE Services
    • Parameters of the ROSE Services
    • Parameters of the RTSE Services
  • An ISODE example
    • ISODE: A simple client
    • ISODE: A Simple Server
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