Data Transfer Layer
  • Used by router to interact with hardware to send/receive data
  • Abstract layer on the top of the network device. (This should support any optimized specific hardware operations, e.g. multicast).
    • Send/Receive
    • One-sided
    • Aggregate communication
  • Interact with the data type engine in order to deliver the data. A possible abstraction is to provide a data convertor
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