Facilitating Interprocess Communication in a Heterogeneous Network Environment
Author(s)
Levine, Paul H.Abstract
Passing information among processors with different internal data formatting schemes has proven to be a major complication to computer networking efforts. Data format translation is necessary to support information exchange in a heterogeneous network environment. Three strategies for performing this translation for communications between a message sender translation by an intermediate translator, and the use of a standard intermediate format.
Date issued
1977-07Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TR-184