A model for dynamic configuration of light-weight protocols

Author

Plagemann, Thomas ; Plattner, Bemhard ; Vogt, Martin ; Walter, Thomas

Author_Institution

Lab. of Comput. Eng. & Networks, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol. Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

1992

fDate

14-16 Apr 1992

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

106

Abstract

This paper discusses the configuration of light-weight protocols. As opposed to other proposals which introduce a predetermined protocol hierarchy, the configuration is dynamic in the sense that an application can specify requirements of the underlying services and the configuration of a protocol is done with respect to these requirements. The approach discussed in this paper introduces a model for the configuration of protocols comprising of three layers: application, end-to-end communications, and transport infrastructure layer. The dynamic configuration takes place in the end-to-end communications layer. The emphasis of the paper is on the description of the model, a notation for the description of application requirements, and the configuration of protocol entities. The approach is particularly well-suited to make use of any progress in implementations of protocol functions

Keywords

formal specification; protocols; application; dynamic configuration; end-to-end communications; light-weight protocols; model; transport infrastructure layer; Application software; Broadband communication; Computer networks; High speed optical techniques; Laboratories; Optical packet switching; Packet switching; Proposals; Quality of service; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1992., Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2755-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1992.217508

Filename

217508