A semantic translation method for data communication protocols

  • Authors:
  • Jingyu Kim;Sungwon Kang;Jihyun Lee;Bong Wan Choi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehakro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea;Department of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 291 Daehakro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea;College of Liberal Arts, Daejeon University 62 Daehak-ro, Dong-gu, Daejeon, Republic of Korea;Graduate School of National Defense, Hannam University, Ojung-dong, Daeduk-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Protocol translation is a method for transforming pieces of information from a source protocol into relevant target protocol formats in order to communicate between heterogeneous legacy systems in interoperability environments. There are some existing protocol translation technologies for network protocols and simple data messages, but these have semantic information problems such as information distortion or incorrect information translations when applied to semantic messages. To deal with these problems, we propose a method that translates messages to semantically equivalent messages. We devised the method to be practical in implementing semantic information-sensitive gateway systems. We conducted a comparative experiment with the translation approach developed in the defense domain. We found that our semantic translation method provides more accurate and efficient message translations in interoperability environments.