A multi-platform programming interface for protocol development

Author

Calafate, Carlos Miguel Tavares ; Manzoni, Pietro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

fYear

2003

fDate

5-7 Feb. 2003

Firstpage

243

Lastpage

249

Abstract

We present a programming interface, called PICA, which aims to reduce the production cycle duration for communication protocols. It offers a user-friendly API that is very intuitive and that covers the major necessities which these protocols may have. Since most research is done in the Linux operating system, it also aims to reduce very significantly the time required to port a protocol implementation to other platforms like Windows NT or Windows CE by providing source code compatibility. We estimated the efficiency of our library and found that the overhead introduced is very small.

Keywords

application program interfaces; distributed processing; operating systems (computers); programming environments; protocols; software libraries; software portability; software prototyping; Linux operating system; PICA; Windows CE; Windows NT; communication protocols; library efficiency; multi-platform programming interface; portability; production cycle duration; protocol development; source code compatibility; user-friendly API; Computer interfaces; Linux; Operating systems; Production; Prototypes; Routing protocols; Software design; Software libraries; Software performance; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2003. Proceedings. Eleventh Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Genova, Italy

ISSN

1066-6192

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1875-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2003.1183595

Filename

1183595