.\" Ouroboros man pages (C) 2017 .\" Dimitri Staessens <dimitri.staessens@ugent.be> .\" Sander Vrijders <sander.vrijders@ugent.be> .TH OUROBOROS-GLOSSARY 7 2017-10-15 Ouroboros "Ouroboros User Manual" .SH NAME ouroboros-glossary - The Ouroboros Glossary .SH SYNOPSIS * .SH USER MANUAL GLOSSARY .PP address .RS 4 an element of a partially ordered set (POSET) consisting of data transfer component namespaces within an IPC process .RE .PP bind a name .RS 4 to associate a name with a program or process. This mapping is stored in the IRMd. .RE .PP bootstrap .RS 4 to configure an IPCP and start it as the first member of a DIF. .RE .PP congestion control .RS 4 the mechanism by which a server DIF controls its resources and prevents its client processes from sending more information than it can currently handle. This is orthogonal to flow control. .RE .PP directory .RS 4 the database that keeps a mapping between an address and a registered hash. In Ouroboros, the default implementation is a Distributed Hash Table. .RE .PP distributed IPC facility (DIF) .RS 4 deprecate? .RE .PP enrolment .RS 4 the action of connecting to a member of an existing DIF, retrieving the bootstrap information and starting the IPCP as a new member of that DIF. .RE .PP flow .RS 4 the system and network resources over which two application processes can send information. A flow is an abstraction of the actual underlying IPC mechanism and has a quality of service (QoS) associated with it, which reflects externally measurable quantities such as delay, jitter, bandwidth, loss and bit error rate. .RE .PP flow allocator .RS 4 the component of an IPCP that reserves the resources for a flow towards a given registered hash. .RE .PP flow control .RS 4 the mechanism with which the destination endpoint of a connection controls the source to prevent the source from sending more information than the destination can currently handle. This is orthogonal to congestion control. .RE .PP flow descriptor .RS 4 an integer used as a handle to a flow (a port ID) within an application. .RE .PP inter process communication (IPC) .RS 4 the mechanisms that allow processes to share information. .RE .PP IPC process .RS 4 a process that allocates and manages the necessary resources within a layer to allow IPC between processes that are clients of that layer. .RE .PP IPC resource manager (IRM) .RS 4 the process that manages local IPC and IPCPs (providing remote IPC). .RE .SH SEE ALSO \fBouroboros-tutorial\fR(7)\fB, ouroboros\fR(8) .SH COLOPHON This page is part of the Ouroboros project, found at http://ouroboros.ilabt.imec.be