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Title : Minion - Service Model and Conceptual API
Author(s) : Janardhan Iyengar
Stuart Cheshire
Josh Graessley
Filename : draft-iyengar-minion-concept-02.txt
Pages : 16
Date : 2013-10-21
Abstract:
Minion uses TCP-format packets on-the-wire, to provide full
compatibility with existing NATs, Firewalls, and similar middleboxes,
but provides a richer set of facilities to the application. Minion's
richer facilities include a message-oriented API rather than TCP's
unstructured byte-stream service model, multiplexing of multiple
messages (or message streams) on a single connection, interleaving of
multiplexed messages (to eliminate head-of-line blocking), message
cancellation, request/reply support, ordered and unordered messages,
superseding messages, chained messages, multiple priority levels with
byte-granularity preemption, and DTLS Security. Minion can be
implemented entirely as a user-level library, without waiting for any
special support from OS vendors, and provides immediate benefits to
application developers. Additionally, Minion is able to take
advantage of some simple kernel extensions to provide enhanced
services that go beyond what is possible with traditional TCP. These
kernel extensions are optional, and even without them, Minion offers
worthwhile benefits to application developers.
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