The lower layers may drop packets, but the transport layer performs a sequence check on the data and ensures that if a 12MB file is sent, the full 12MB is received. "OSI transport services ...

The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) seven-layer reference model is a framework for data communications. As seen in previous chapters, security can be breached by exploiting the flaws and weaknesses of ...

and even higher layer distributed object protocols such as SOAP, CORBA or RMI. See OSI model, communications protocol, data link protocol and distributed objects. (2) In an electronic system ...