Fine-Tuning the OSI Model: Layer Functions and Services
Mark D. Pardue · 1987
This paper examines some aspects of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reterence Model, which provides the framework for most current international data communications standardization efforts. General theorems are developed and architectural breakouts of the layers of the Reference Model are analyzed to address minor inconsistencies in layer services and tunctions presently specified in OSI documents.