Connection management without retaining information
Hagit Attiya, Shlomi Dolev, Jennifer Lundelius Welch · 2002
Managing a connection between two hosts in a network is an important service to provide in order to make the network useful for many applications. The two main sub-problems are the management of serial incarnations of a connection and the transfer of messages within an incarnation. This paper investigates whether it is necessary for connection management protocols to retain state information across node crashes and between incarnations.>