olemus
sidereeglistik, mis on teostatav
aparatuuris ja/või tarkvaras
ning määrab informatsiooni edastuse
- marsruutimise
- vormingud
- süntaksi
- semantika
- edastuskiirused
- sünkroniseerimise
- veatöötluse
- jm üksikasjad;

ülevaateid
https://www.slideshare.net/sankhadeep/communication-protocol-arindam-samanta

https://www.slideshare.net/GopiA2/communication-protocol-presentation

https://www.w3schools.in/types-of-network-protocols-and-their-uses/

https://assignmenthelp4me.com/article-importance-of-communication-protocols-458.html

http://web.cs.iastate.edu/~cs554/NOTES/Ch4-1.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20120529200700/http://www.wildpackets.com/elements/misc/WP_encapsulation_chart.pdf

https://www.elprocus.com/communication-protocols/

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/communication_technologies/mobile_communication_protocols.htm

põhjalikumalt
http://bkarak.wizhut.com/www/lectures/networks-07/NetworkProtocolsHandbook.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_network_protocols

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_network_protocols_(OSI_model)

vt ka
- OSI mudel
- TCP/IP-mudel