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This chapter defines a connection-oriented channel similar to the reliable streaming service of Internet sockets. A user accesses the channel as a “client” or as a “server”. A server user at address j starts with a call to accept any incoming connect request. The call can return with a remote address k to indicate that it is connected to a client at k. The call can also be canceled. A client user at j starts with a call to connect to a remote address k. The call can return indicating that it is connected to k, either to an accepting server (client-server connection) or to a client simultaneously requesting to connect to j (client-client connection). The call can also return indicating that the connect was rejected. Once the users are connected to each other, they can exchange messages. A user calls to close the connection when it has no more messages to send. The call returns only after the remote user has also called to close and the local user has received all messages sent by the remote user. The service ensures that a connected user receives messages only from the remote user to which it connected, and not, say, from previous connections to the same remote address.
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Shankar, A.U. (2013). Reliable Transport Service. In: Distributed Programming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4881-5_20
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