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Defining faster transfer syntaxes for the OSI presentation protocol

Published: 01 October 1989 Publication History
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    In an heterogeneous environment, applications must agree the structure and a binary representation of the exchanged data. This can a priori be done by adopting by the two standards proposed by ISO: the Abstract Syntax Notation 1 (ASN-1) and the ASN-1 basic encoding rules (ASN1-BER). However, the ASN1-BER conversion procedures are highly CPU consuming, which is not acceptable for several "high speed" applications. We propose to use the presentation layer negotiation to select faster transfer syntax. We have experimented with a first "light weight" syntax since 1988, and have just completed the definition a new "flat tree light weight syntax", which can be orders of magnitude faster than the ASN1-BER.

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    cover image ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review  Volume 19, Issue 5
    Oct. 1989
    89 pages
    ISSN:0146-4833
    DOI:10.1145/74681
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    New York, NY, United States

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    Published: 01 October 1989
    Published in SIGCOMM-CCR Volume 19, Issue 5

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