in open systems interconnection (OSI). See seven-layer reference model.
Many computer systems are defined in terms of a layered architecture; for example, the OSI Reference Model. Each layer provides functionally distinct services to the other layers, with each layer drawing on services provided by the next layer.
Communications software is often divided into layers, each layer comprising a protocol with responsibility for a specific task. For example, a network layer protocol is responsible for getting packets from the transmitter to the receiver through many intermediate nodes; a data-link layer protocol is responsible for negotiating access to a shared medium (for example a local Ethernet LAN). The most frequently quoted model is the ISO OSI 7-layer protocol stack, in which the layers are: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
‘The visual representation of a geographic dataset in any digital map environment. Conceptually, a layer is a slice or stratum of the geographic reality in a particular area, and is more or less equivalent to a legend item on a paper map. On a road map, for example, roads, national parks, political boundaries, and rivers might be considered different layers’ (ESRI GIS dictionary).
layer
- long baseline experiment
- long-baseline interferometry
- Long, Crawford Williamson
- long-dated security
- long-day plant
- long distance carrier
- long division
- Long-Duration Exposure Facility
- long filename
- Longfordian
- longhorn
- longiconic
- Longinus (1st)
- Longisquama insignis
- longitude
- longitude at the epoch
- longitude of perigee
- longitude of perihelion
- longitude of the ascending node
- longitudinal conductance
- longitudinal data
- longitudinal dispersion
- longitudinal redundancy check
- longitudinal study
- longitudinal-type coast