The phrase "a communications protocol" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a set of rules or standards that define how data is transmitted and received over a network.
Example: "In order to ensure secure data transfer, we need to implement a communications protocol that all devices will follow."
Alternatives: "a data transmission standard" or "a network communication standard".
A communications protocol developed under contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to internetwork dissimilar systems.
This was done to provide a communications protocol that had many implementations running on a large number of hardware and operating system platforms.
And two years later, it is starting to put into practice some of the task force's recommendations: increasing staff and extending hours at its busy mental health center, promoting "campus-wide awareness" of mental health issues and resources and figuring out a "communications protocol" for dealing with a student's family in an emergency situation.
Baran's inventions provided the technical foundation for the eventual development at ARPANET of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), a communications protocol that allowed a number of different networks designed by different vendors to form a "network of networks".
His credits include the creation of a naming scheme (URIs), a communications protocol (HTTP) and a language for webpages (HTML).
His credits include the creation of a naming scheme (URIs), a communications protocol (HTTP) and a language for webpages (HTML).
Of course this can happen in any communications protocol; there is a whole literature on the subject.
Yes, this can happen in any communications protocol with some calculable probability.
It communicates with the control console using a standard communications protocol for remote surgery known as the Interoperable Telesurgery Protocol.
The simultaneous, distributed search is possible because clients and servers agree on a standard document addressing scheme and adopt a common communications protocol that accommodates all the data types and formats used by the servers.
This is a serial communications protocol which efficiently supports distributed real-time control with a very high level of security [Bosch, R., 1991. CAN Specification Version 2.0. Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, 70 pp.].
