The phrase "a protocol known as" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing or referencing a specific protocol in a technical or formal context.
Example: "The study utilized a protocol known as the double-blind method to ensure unbiased results."
Alternatives: "a protocol referred to as" or "a protocol identified as".
But now comes a protocol known as XML, for Extensible Markup Language.
Using a protocol known as HTTPS can prevent a man-in-the-middle attack, because it encrypts information in transit.
In the United States, doctors commonly adhere to a protocol known as the Harry Benjamin standards, which require sex-change candidates to have seen a psychiatrist for at least six months.
They included hiring more border-patrol agents, erecting more fencing along the border, and instituting a protocol known as E-Verify to force employers to hire only legal workers.
It was calculated with a protocol known as the Bonn convention that calls for measuring the extent of an oil spill, using its color to judge the thickness of oil atop the water, and then multiplying.
The government, citing the ongoing security threat that Tsarnaev might pose by communicating with co-conspirators — or by inspiring impressionable people to follow his example — invoked a protocol, known as Special Administrative Measures, that forbade the defendant from communicating with anyone outside his legal team and his immediate family.
This month, T-Mobile said it would soon begin activating a technical protocol known as SHAKEN/STIR, a type of caller authentication that follows the same principles as website encryption.
The latter comprises a distributed protocol known as EDCA and an optional resource reservation centralized protocol called HCCA.
The project that landed Moore in trouble, Critical.IO, uncovered some serious, widespread vulnerabilities, including one case where between 40 and 50 million network machines could have been compromised due to weaknesses in a network protocol, known as Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).
That command disables a Bluetooth protocol known as "Enhanced Re-Transmission Mode" which causes issues on Linux with the Xbox One S controller.
All life as we know it follows a standard protocol, known as the "central dogma," using DNA and RNA to store genetic information, and translating that into proteins.
