Title :
PROSPEC: an interactive programming environment for designing and verifying communication protocols
Author :
Chow, China-Hua ; Lam, Simon S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA
fDate :
3/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The PROSPEC software environment for designing and verifying communication protocols is described. It integrates several tools that implement methods for protocol verification and construction (i.e., fair reachability analysis, multiphase construction, and protocol projection). The system provides a unified graphical interface to facilitate the application of these methods and creates an interactive environment for specifying, verifying, and designing communication protocols. PROSPEC was used successfully to design and verify versions of BSC, X.21, X.25, and Telnet document transfer protocols
Keywords :
interactive programming; programming environments; protocols; software tools; BSC; PROSPEC; Telnet document transfer protocols; X.21; X.25; communication protocols verification; fair reachability analysis; graphical interface; interactive programming environment; multiphase construction; protocol projection; specification; Application software; Automata; Computer errors; Formal specifications; Power system modeling; Programming environments; Protocols; Reachability analysis; Software design; Software tools;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
