Protocol Reference

This page contains a description for numerous protocols seen in diverse communication networks. See HowToEdit for some tips about adding a missing protocol.

Protocol Families

There are families of protocols, where the protocols relate to each other:

• AmateurRadioProtocolFamily: Protocols used in Amateur Radio: AX.25, NETROM, Flexnet, ROSE
• AppleTalkProtocolFamily: The suite of AppleTalk protocols, including: LLAP, AARP, DDP, NBP, ZIP, ATP, ASP, AFP, ...
• DTNProtocolFamily: Protocols used in delay/disruption-tolerant networking, including the Bundle Protocol and its convergence layers TCPCL, LTPCL, and UDPCL.
• FieldbusProtocolFamily: Fieldbus related protocols, including: BACnet, PROFIBUS, PROFINET, ...
• FinanceIndustryProtocolFamily: Protocols for interaction with financial exchanges, brokers, etc: OUCH, SoupBinTCP, ...
• InternetProtocolFamily: The famous TCP/IP suite of protocols, including: ARP, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, DCCP, HTTP, HTTP2, FTP, WebSocket...
• InstantMessengerFamily: Instant Messaging Protocols, including AIM, MSN, Jabber, YMSG, Paltalk ...
• IPCProtocolFamily: Inter Process Communication Protocols used e.g. in clusters, including: TIPC, LINX, ...
• IPMIProtocolFamily: Intelligent Platform Management Interface Protocol used in board including: IPMB...
• IsoProtocolFamily: The OSI suite of protocols from ISO, including: CLNP (ISO8473), COTP (ISO8073), FTAM, ...
• LanProtocolFamily: Protocols for LANs and MANs, including: Ethernet, FDDI, TokenRing, IEEE_802.11, ...
• MediaTransportProtocols: Protocols for transporting media, such as RTP, RDT, MSMMS, ...
• MediaTypesFamily: A set of media types dissected by Wireshark, including: GIF, JPEG_JFIF, MIME_multipart, WBXML, ...
• MobileTelephonyProtocolFamily: Protocols used in GSM, WCDMA, CDMA2000, etc: (Some one with better knowledge in this area please add info here)
• NetworkFilesystemFamily: Suites of protocols related to NAS such as NFS, SMB (CIFS), AFS, DCE/DFS, Intermezzo, PVFS...
• NovellProtocolFamily: The suite of Novell protocols, including: IPX, SPX, NCP, ...
• OPC: Protocols used in automation technology to access process data in a standardized way: OPC Data Access, OPC Alarm & Events, OPC Historical Data Access, OPC XML-DA, OPC Unified Architecture
• P2pProtocols: Protocols used by Peer-2-Peer applications, including BitTorrent, eDonkey, Jabber and JXTA
• RPC: Suites of protocols related to Remote Procedure Calls, including ONC-RPC, DCE/RPC, ...
• SIGTRAN: The suite of protocols used to transport packet-based PSTN signaling over IP Networks, including Q.931, ISUP, ...
• StorageProtocolFamily: Suites of protocols related to block storage (SAN) and backup applications, including SCSI, iSCSI, NDMP, FibreChannel, ...
• VendorLanProtocolFamily: Proprietary L2 protocols by various vendors, including: CDP, EDP, ISMP, PAPI ...
• VOIPProtocolFamily: The suite(s) of Voice over IP protocols, including: SIP, H323, H225, H245, ...
• WanProtocolFamily: Protocols for WANs, including: PPP, ATM, FrameRelay, ...
• WapProtocolFamily: The suite of WAP protocols for enabling Internet services on wireless networks, including: WTP, WSP, ...
• WiMaxProtocolFamily: Suite of protocols for WiMAX wireless broadband access, including WIMAXASNCP.
• WPANFamily: Protocols for wireless personal area networks, including IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee, and 6LoWPAN
• Identifier-Locator split protocols: HIP, LISP, SHIM6
• LTEProtocolFamily: Protocols for the 4G LTE, including S1AP,NAS,Diameter, GTPv2,GTPv1.GTP-U

A protocol can belong to more than one family.

General

• Frame: The frame protocol isn't a real protocol itself, but used by Wireshark as a base for all the protocols on top of it.
• OsiModel: The famous ISO/OSI 7 layer protocol stack reference model, see the definition at wikipedia.org.
• RFC: Request For Comments: Not a protocol itself, but the place where a lot of the internet protocol standards can be found.

Organizations

• ANSI: American National Standards Institute: Some protocol specifications like FDDI. The ANSI accredited standards developer for information technology standards, including protocol standards is the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards, INCITS.
• Bluetooth SIG: Bluetooth Special Interest Group: Organization leading the development and promotion of Bluetooth, provide specifications, organizing events, testing events.
• CableLabs: Cable Television Laboratories: nonprofit research and development consortium founded by Cable MSOs, develops Cable-related standards, e.g. DOCSIS and PacketCable.
• EPCglobal: Organization leading the development of industry-driven standards for the Electronic Product Code™ (EPC) to support the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
• ETSI: European Telecommunications Standards Institute: Here you can find some protocol specifications.
• IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority: Where you can find numbering used in different protocols, e.g. well known TCP ports, etc.
• IEEE: Various standards, e.g. Ethernet, TokenRing, IEEE_802.11, ...
• IETF: Internet Engineering Task Force: Where you can find the RFC's and InternetDrafts
• ISO: The International Organization for Standardization, e.g. famous OsiModel and IsoProtocolFamily
• ITU-T: International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (formerly CCITT): Specifies some of the protocols used in e.g. the VOIPProtocolFamily, as well as X.25, SS7, ASN.1, ...
• The OpenGroup: Specifies the DCE family, including DCE/RPC
• Pro-MPEG Forum: Interests in realizing interoperability of professional television equipment. Specifies a 2dParityFEC for MPEG2-TS transmission.
• W3C: World Wide Web Consortium: web standards like: HTTP, CSS, XML, ...
• 3GPP: 3rd Generation Partnership Project: mobile telephony standards like GSM, GPRS, ...
• 3GPP2: 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 : mobile telephony standards like CDMA2000,...

Hardware related protocols

• ARP: AddressResolutionProtocol: A protocol to dynamically discover the mapping between layer 2 and layer 3 addresses.
• ATM: AsynchronousTransferMode:
• Bluetooth: Popular wireless protocols for mobile phone accessories
• Bluetooth Low Energy: Newer hardware, not compatible with old, but provide low power consumption
• Ethernet: The most common link layer technology used today.
• FDDI: FiberDistributedDataInterface: fiber optical based link layer, obsolete
• FibreChannel: fibre optical based link layer, used to connect storage devices
• FR: FrameRelay: LAN/WAN technology, obsolete
• HSR: High-availability Seamless Redundancy: A protocol for network redundancy.
• I2C: (sometimes IIC) bi-directional two wires bus used in most of embeded system to transfer data. this include IPMB protocol
• IEEE_802.15.4: Low-power wireless networking protocol intended for sensor networks.
• ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network (digital "telephone line")
• MAC Addresses: Wireshark's list of Ethernet vendor codes and well-known MAC addresses
• PRP: Parallel Redundancy Protocol: A protocol for network redundancy.
• TR: TokenRing: LAN technology, obsolete
• USB: Universal Serial Bus Related USB-PTP MTP
• Wi-Fi: WLAN: IEEE_802.11: The standard technology for wireless LANs.
• X.25: data packet delivery over serial lines, obsolete

Unsorted

• 29West: Ultra-Low Latency Messaging (ULLM) technology.
• ACN: ANSI BSR E1.17, Architecture for Control Networks.
• AMQP: Advanced Message Queueing Protocol.
• C12.22: ANSI C12.22, communications protocol used for electric utility meter networks.
• Cisco-IPSLA: Cisco IP SLA v1
• CIGI: Common Image Generator Interface Protocol
• CMP: Certificate Management Protocol.
• DECT: Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications. Popular cordless telephone interface.
• DICOM: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine.
• DVB-S2: DVB-S2 Baseband Frames
• DVB-CI: DVB-CI (Common Interface).
• eCPRI: evolved Common Public Radio Interface
• Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch Protocol
• FastCGI: FastCGI is a protocol for interfacing application programs with a web server.
• FP Hint: Frame Protocol Hints, provides hints for dissecting FP traffic transmitted over the UMTS Iub interface.
• gRPC: gRPC is a high performance, open source framework developed by Google to handle remote procedure calls (RPCs).
• HART-IP: Highway Addressable Remote Transducer over IP (HART-IP).
• HDCP2: High bandwidth Digital Content Protection, Version 2 (HDCP2).
• HiQnet: Harman Pro Devices Protocol
• HiSLIP: High-Speed LAN Instrument Protocol
• HYTEC: Organizational specific protocols and protocol extensions.
• Gearman: Gearman provides a generic application framework to farm out work to other machines or processes that are better suited to do the work.
• ISMACryp: Short for ISMA Encryption & Authentication.
• IEEE C37.118: Synchrophasors for Power Systems
• Kafka: Kafka Protocol
• kNet: A network protocol for transmitting arbitrary application-specific messages between network hosts.
• LDAP: The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: The protocol accessing data from directory services like OpenLDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, Netscape Directory Server or Novell eDirectory.
• LLRP: EPCglobal Low-Level Reader Protocol for communication between RFID Readers and Client Applications.
• META: TLV-based protocol for adding metadata to frames.
• MS-LLTD: Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Protocol.
• Netsync: The Monotone version control systems Netsync protocol.
• OMRON-FINS: SCADA protocol called FINS made by OMRON for controlling industrial devices.
• OpenFlow: Software Defined Networking southbound protocol
• OpenVPN: OpenVPN Protocol provides the SSL/TLS connection with a reliable transport layer.
• Oracle: Oracle has (apparently) several related protocols for sending SQL over the wire
• PCP: Performance Co-Pilot protocol (a performance monitoring protocol)
• PPI: Per-Packet Information (PPI) header
• Protobuf: Google Protocol Buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
• SAMETIME: The Sametime Protocol (an instant message protocol)
• SIMULCRYPT: A DVB / ETSI protocol used in IPTV / broadcast TV head-ends to handle multiple key management systems.
• SML: A communication protocol for smart metering.
• Snort: Snort IDS post-dissector
• SSTP: Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol, a ssl based VPN protocol
• STANAG_5066_SIS: Subnetwork Interface Sublayer of NATO STANAG 5066 data communication protocol for HF stack.
• STANAG_5066_DTS: Data Transfer Sublayer of NATO STANAG 5066 protocol stack.
• TeamSpeak2: The TeamSpeak2 VoIP protocol.
• Thrift: Apache Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for point-to-point RPC implementations.
• Tinkerforge: Tinkerforge Protocol.
• Tor: The Tor Protocol.
• TRDP: Train Real Time Data Protocol.
• UCP: Universal Computer Protocol.
• UDT: UDP-based Data Transfer.
• UserLog:user log flow
• Ventrilo: The well-known VoIP program Ventrilo's own protocol.
• VXI-11: The VXIbus Consortium's TCP/IP Instrument Protocol.
• WOL: WakeOnLAN protocol for remotely waking a remote host via the so-called Magic Packet.

External links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_protocol Network protocols on wikipedia.org
• http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.html Index of RFCs at the IANA
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj712081.aspx Open Specifications for common Windows protocols at Microsoft.com

Discussion

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