Object-Oriented Network Protocols

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Böcking

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

A wide-range of various network communication services and protocols is required to efficiently support the diverse networks and their applications. It is usual to design a protocol for each new service which is required. An attractive alternative is to use a modular and object-oriented architecture for the design and implementation of network protocols. With it, protocols for individual service provision can be created by simply combining generic protocol functions blocks. The first part of this paper presents a new reference model which gives a foundation for the object-oriented design and implementation of modular network protocols. The second part discusses a case study of an existing object-oriented network communication system.