Chapter 11. PSN Usage

The Previous Chapter

The previous chapter started by introducing the concept of services, how a CA is located, and the discovery of what services that CA provides. Having located a service provider, a communications channel must be established between the local application program and the service provider. This chapter provided a basic description of the process used in establishing a communications channel between a RC, UC, RD, or UD QP type in the local CA and a QP of the same type in the CA that will provide the desired service.

This Chapter

This chapter provides a detailed discussion of how PSNs in request packets are generated by the requester QP's SQ Logic (or, in RD, the requester EEC's Send Logic) and how they are ...

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