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In order to support the inter-process communication, specific support has to be provided by both the operating system and the programming language used. This chapter presents and discusses sockets, as one of the major solutions employed by network programming for the inter-process communications. Sockets provide the application developer with direct basic access to transport protocols, offering data packet transport services between a sender and a receiver host over the network, while hiding the complexity and implementation details of the protocol stack below. Sockets’ examples are presented in details when two of the most popular transport protocols are employed in turn: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
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Ciubotaru, B., Muntean, GM. (2013). Sockets. In: Advanced Network Programming – Principles and Techniques. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5292-7_5
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