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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 464)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Protocol Specification
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About this book
Many protocol implementations used in the field have almost suffered from failures, such as deadlocks. When the conditions in which the protocols work correctly have been changed, there has been no general method available for determining how they will work under the new conditions. It is necessary for protocol designers to have techniques and tools to detect errors in the early phase of design, because the later in the process that a fault is discovered, the greater the cost of rectifying it.
Protocol verification is a process of checking whether the interactions of protocol entities, according to the protocol specification, do indeed satisfy certain properties or conditions which may be either general (e.g., absence of deadlock) or specific to the particular protocol system directly derived from the specification.
In the 80s, an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) working group began a programme of work to develop formal languages which were suitable for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). This group called such languages Formal Description Techniques (FDTs). Some of the objectives of ISO in developing FDTs were: enabling unambiguous, clear and precise descriptions of OSI protocol standards to be written, and allowing such specifications to be verified for correctness. There aretwo FDTs standardized by ISO: LOTOS and Estelle.
Communication Protocol Specification and Verification is written to address the two issues discussed above: the needs to specify a protocol using an FDT and to verify its correctness in order to uncover specification errors in the early stage of a protocol development process. The readership primarily consists of advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, communication software developers, telecommunication engineers, EDP managers, researchers and software engineers. It is intended as an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate textbook, and a reference for communication protocol professionals.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communication Protocol Specification and Verification
Authors: Richard Lai, Ajin Jirachiefpattana
Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5549-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8284-3Published: 30 September 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7537-1Published: 22 March 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5549-0Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0893-3405
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 304
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Computer Hardware