Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN)

Session Management Layer

This layer provides applications-independent session mechanisms. One example of a very useful session level mechanism is a message-oriented interface built on top of a single TCP connection. Without such a capability, applications like the World Wide Web that use TCP but need a message-oriented interface are forced to use a separate TCP connection for each message. The inefficiencies of the standard approaches are considerable.

Randy H. Katz, ed., randy@cs.Berkeley.edu; Last edited: 22 APR 95