The Totem protocol development environment

Author

Ciarfella, P. ; Moser, L.E. ; Melliar-Smith, P.M. ; Agarwal, D.A.

Author_Institution

Cascade Commun. Corp., Westford, MA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

25-28 Oct 1994

Firstpage

168

Lastpage

177

Abstract

We describe the protocol development environment for the Totem protocol, a fault-tolerant communication protocol that provides fast reliable ordered message delivery and membership services. The protocol development environment is a distributed discrete-event simulator that provides a testbed for the controlled testing and debugging of the Totem protocol. Unlike many other protocol simulation environments, the Totem protocol development environment directly executes the implementation code of the protocol being simulated instead of a model of the protocol. Executing the implementation code of the protocol in the simulator facilitates both the testing and debugging of the protocol. Modifications and design changes to the protocol are directly reflected in both the simulation and the implementation

Keywords

discrete event simulation; distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; program debugging; programming environments; protocols; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network reliability; Totem protocol development environment; distributed discrete-event simulator; fault-tolerant communication protocol; implementation code; membership services; protocol debugging; protocol simulation environments; protocol testing; reliable ordered message delivery; testbed; Communication system control; Control systems; Debugging; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; History; Monitoring; Protocols; Reproducibility of results; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network Protocols, 1994. Proceedings., 1994 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6685-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICNP.1994.344363

Filename

344363