UML 2.0 implementation of an embedded WLAN protocol

Author

Kukkala, Petri ; Helminen, Väinö ; Hännikäinen, Markn ; Hämäläinen, Timo D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Digital & Comput. Syst., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

1158

Abstract

This paper evaluates the suitability of the new Unified Modelling Language (UML) 2.0 for the design and implementation of embedded wireless local area network (WLAN) protocols. UML 2.0 introduces several new features and improvements to semantics, diagram types, and notations of the language. Behaviour in UML 2.0 can be described accurately and precisely, which enables automatic source code (C/C++ for example) generation for creating executable models. A medium access control (MAC) protocol called TUTMAC was designed and implemented with UML 2.0, and integrated into a hardware platform. The implementation with UML 2.0 reached adequate performance for the protocol with time-critical functionality on the target platform.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; access protocols; programming language semantics; wireless LAN; TUTMAC protocol; UML 2.0; Unified Modelling Language; automatic source code generation; embedded WLAN protocol; language notation; medium access control protocol; semantics; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Computer networks; Connectors; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; Object oriented modeling; Packaging; Unified modeling language; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2004. PIMRC 2004. 15th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8523-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2004.1373880

Filename

1373880