Modeling communications protocols using the Unified Modeling Language

Author

Jaragh, M. ; Saleh, K.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Kuwait Univ., Safat, Kuwait

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

271

Abstract

Specifying communications protocols is a very important step of the protocol development process and protocol engineering. A rigorous specification would result in a more reliable and highly maintainable implementation, and hence would reduce the time and cost required for performing the development and maintenance activities. In this paper, we propose the use of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) (Booch et al. 1999) for the specification documentation and elicitation of behavioral, structural and architectural models covering both the static and dynamic aspects of protocols. We illustrate the use of UML using a simple communication service and protocol

Keywords

formal specification; protocols; specification languages; UML; Unified Modeling Language; architectural models; behavioral models; communications protocols; dynamic aspects; protocol development; protocol engineering; specification documentation; static aspects; structural models; Acoustical engineering; Costs; Documentation; Electronic mail; Maintenance engineering; Protocols; Reliability engineering; Software maintenance; Spine; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2000. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6355-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2000.888746

Filename

888746