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Session layer is responsible for synchronization and dialog control.
Some session layer protocols are:
SMPP: Short Message Peer to Peer
SCP: Session Control Protocol
PPTP: Point to Point Tunelling Protocol
PAP: Password Authentication Protocol
The session layer provides the mechanism for opening, closing and managing a session between end-user application processes, Communication sessions consist of requests and responses that occur between applications. Session-layer services are commonly used in application environments that make use of remote procedure calls (RPCs).
session layer is primarily responsible for setting up and managing communicative sessions, thereby enabling the sending and receiving of data for an undetermined length of time—similar to a telephone call. Additionally, the session layer is responsible for terminating sessions between software processes.
5. Session layer is layer 5 the session if a connection is not used for a long period the session layer protocols may close it and re-open it.
Session layer establishes, controls and ends the sessions between local and remote applications.(tracks the dialogs between multiple computers)
According there name it going to build session between source & destination like when we are opening any site on browser then it's responcebale to create a back to back connectivity with destination point for us. And it is 5th layer of OSI model.
The main role of seesion layer is managing and setting up the data,
Some session layer protocols are:
SMPP: Short Message Peer to Peer
SCP: Session Control Protoco
