A modular approach to constructing protocol converters

Author

Yao, Yow-Wei ; Chen, Wen-Shyen ; Liu, Ming T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

3-7 Jun 1990

Firstpage

572

Abstract

A modular approach is proposed for constructing a converter for two protocols that go through different phases, performing separate functions in each phase. The construction of such a converter consists of three steps: (1) the decomposition of protocols into distinct functions; (2) the construction of functional converters for each pair of functions selected by the converter designer; and (3) the merging of local functions with functional converters to construct the final converter. The final converter not only contains a common subset of functions of the two protocols, but also includes functionalities specified to each protocol

Keywords

computer networks; finite automata; protocols; communicating finite state machine model; computer networks; construction; functional converters; local functions; modular approach; protocol converters; Automata; Automation; Computer networks; Contracts; Humans; Image converters; Information science; Merging; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '90, Ninth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies. The Multiple Facets of Integration. Proceedings, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2049-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1990.91297

Filename

91297