NetPDL: An extensible XML-based language for packet header description

Authors:
Fulvio Risso;Mario Baldi
Affiliations:
Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24-10129 Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24-10129 Torino, Italy
Venue:
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Year:
2006

Citing 3
Cited 4

ASN.1: communication between heterogeneous systems

ASN.1: communication between heterogeneous systems
VLib: Infinite Virtual Libraries for LOTOS

Proceedings of the IFIP TC6/WG6.1 Thirteenth International Symposium on Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification XIII
The BSD packet filter: a new architecture for user-level packet capture

USENIX'93 Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1993 Conference Proceedings on USENIX Winter 1993 Conference Proceedings

An intrusion detection sensor for the NetVM virtual processor

ICOIN'09 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Information Networking
SPAF: stateless FSA-based packet filters

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A paradigm for processing network protocols in parallel

ICA3PP'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - Volume Part II
Detection and classification of peer-to-peer traffic: A survey

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Although several applications need to know the format of network packets to perform their tasks, till now, each application uses its own packet description database. This paper addresses this problem by proposing the NetPDL, an XML-based language for describing packet headers, which has the potential of enabling the realization of a common, application-independent protocol description database that can be shared among several applications. Further, common functionalities related to the protocol database can be implemented in a library, which can be a basic building block for implementing networking applications.