The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A language-based approach to protocol implementation
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Communication protocol design to facilitate re-use based on the object-oriented paradigm
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: protocols for mobile environments
Object-oriented modelling of communication protocols for re-use
ICCCN '95 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
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Abstract: Modern operating system designs should not only offer suitable system call interfaces to the end-user application programs, but should also be able to accommodate special purpose sub-systems, such as networking software, executing in a privileged/kernel address space. Decisions involved in networking software design and implementation require a careful analysis of the features offered by the target operating environment including available communications hardware and, in particular, the host's operating system. This paper discusses two important issues in networking software design and implementation. The first one relates to the treatment of inter-layer communication (ILC) among multiple protocol entities. If is suggested that the ILC model offers flexibility of design and reuseability if treated as a form of inter-process communication. The second issue is that of the individual layer configurability. Operating system and networking software sub-system startup procedures are inter-dependent and require a new, parametric-driven approach to configuration and generation of executable system files.