An Effective Application of Net-Theory to Communication Protocol Development

Norio SHIRATORI  Eun-Seok LEE  Ken TERUYA  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E77-A   No.10   pp.1588-1593
Publication Date: 1994/10/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Net Theory and Its Applications)
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Net-theory,  protocol life cycle,  FDT,  LTS,  protocol,  FSM,  CCS,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents an effective application of Net-theory for all the stages of the communication protocol development process. Net-theory provides a basic mathematical model and tool for development of communication protocol. The special usability of Net-theory is that 1) visual representation of the system's stadic/dynamic structure, so that users may easily understand the represented contents, 2) formal specifications based on mathematical basis of Net-theory admit automatic verification, implementation and conformance testing. We have seen that Net-theory which has the above usability can provide a systematic and advanced paradigm for effective communication protocol development.