Title :
Design considerations for a visual language for communications protocol specifications
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO, USA
Abstract :
Communications protocol specification is a complex problem domain in which a visual paradigm may be employed. The paper describes the desirable characteristics of a visual specification language for this problem domain, and presents a preliminary design for such a language, based on message-flow diagrams
Keywords :
protocols; specification languages; visual languages; communications protocol specifications; message-flow diagrams; visual language; visual paradigm; visual specification language; Bandwidth; Cities and towns; Communication system control; Computer networks; Computer science; Formal specifications; Information security; Routing protocols; Specification languages; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages, 1991., Proceedings. 1991 IEEE Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Kobe
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2330-6
DOI :
10.1109/WVL.1991.238827
