Management aspects for OSI Transport Layer over a satellite channel

This paper describes the management aspects we found necessary for the simulation of a layer 4 of OSI architecture over a satellite channel. No specialized management entities has been introduced, so as the management functions here described are to be considered generally distributed. A particular type of connection has been also studied, that is the one-point to multi-end-points connection. The solution which has been found, particularly for what addressing are concerned both minimize the differences with the transport protocol for point to point connections and allows us to use the TPDU format stated by ISO for point to point connections.