The Austin Protocol Compiler

Tommy M. McGuire, Mohamed G. Gouda (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

141 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-3588-5 (ISBN)

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There are two groups of researchers who are interested in designing network protocols and who cannot (yet) effectively communicate with one another c- cerning these protocols. The first is the group of protocol verifiers, and the second is the group of protocol implementors. The main reason for the lack of effective communication between these two groups is that these groups use languages with quite different semantics to specify network protocols. On one hand, the protocol verifiers use specification languages whose semantics are abstract, coarse-grained, and with large atom- ity. Clearly, protocol specifications that are developed based on such semantics are easier to prove correct. On the other hand, the protocol implementors use specification languages whose semantics are concrete, fine-grained, and with small atomicity. Protocol specifications that are developed based on such - mantics are easier to implement using system programming languages such as C, C++, and Java. To help in closing this communication gap between the group of protocol verifiers and the group of protocol implementors, we present in this monograph a protocol specification language called the Timed Abstract Protocol (or TAP, for short) notation. This notation is greatly influenced by the Abstract Protocol Notation in the textbook Elements of Network Protocol Design, written by the second author, Mohamed G. Gouda. The TAP notation has two types of sem- tics: an abstract semantics that appeals to the protocol verifiers and a concrete semantics thatappeals to the protocol implementors group.

Network Protocols.- The Timed Abstract Protocol Notation.- Execution Models of Network Protocols.- Equivalence of Execution Models.- Preserving Fairness.- The Austin Protocol Compiler.- Two Examples.- A DNS Server.- Concluding Remarks.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Advances in Information Security ; 13
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 141 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Datenbanken
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie
ISBN-10	1-4419-3588-6 / 1441935886
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-3588-5 / 9781441935885
Zustand	Neuware