Design and implementation of meta-protocol framework for dynamic communication protocols specifications

الملخص EN

A communication protocol is an agreement among two or more parties on the sequence of operations and the format of messages to be exchanged.

Standardization organizations define protocols in the form of recommendations (e.

g., RFC) written in technical English, which requires a manual translation of the specification into the protocol implementation.

This human translation is error-prone due in part to the ambiguities of natural language and in part due to the complexity of some protocols.

To mitigate these problems, we divided the expression of a protocol specification into two parts.

A high level specification of the protocol, expressed as a Finite State Machines (FSM), is written in XML and is based on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE).

Then, the components required by the protocol are specified in any suitable technical language (formal or informal).

We developed a framework that provides a higher level of flexibility for the implementation and distribution of protocols than that of traditional autonomous protocols.

Also, we built a system architecture and code generator to test the proposed Meta-protocol framework.