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Reading and processing upper-layers messages

The VIF, as mentionned above, will have three attached prcesses ; VARP, VIP and VRIP. Added to these processes we have an other processes whose role is to manage interlayer communications ie. packet delivery from upper-layer protocols to the data-link layer. this process is implemented as a loop reading constantly from the VIF module input FIFOs ( 1 fifo per upper-layer protocol ). and once a message is read , it will be sent to the datalink layer using the VDL module primitives.

Last changed 2004-08-25.
Zrelli Saber. , Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Shinoda-lab
zrelli@jasit.ac.jp