digital communication

n : electronic transmission of information that has been encoded

digitally (as for storage and processing by computers)

[syn: {data communication}]

reliable communication

Communication where messages are guaranteed to reach their

destination complete and uncorrupted and in the order they

were sent. This reliability can be built on top of an

unreliable {protocol} by adding sequencing information and

some kind of {checksum} or {cyclic redundancy check} to each

message or {packet}. If the communication fails, the sender

will be notified. {Transmission Control Protocol} is a

reliable protocol used on {Ethernet}.