A parallel model for constructing protocol converters

Author

Yao, Yow-Wei ; Chen, Wen-Shyen ; Liu, Ming T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

2-5 Dec 1990

Firstpage

1902

Abstract

A parallel model for constructing protocol converters which removes the limitation of a previous parallel model that allows only one-to-one message mapping of two protocols is proposed. For two protocols specified in the communicating finite state machine (CFSM) model, the proposed method consists of three steps: (1) partitioning the mapping functions of the two target protocols into two separate entities; (2) deriving two half-converters to translate transition sequences between the two target protocols; and (3) inserting error-recovery transitions into the half-converters for half-gateway architecture implementation. The proposed conversion scheme can be implemented not only in a single-gateway architecture using two concurrently executing processes but also in a half-gateway architecture with error-recovery features included

Keywords

error correction; finite automata; protocols; communicating finite state machine; error-recovery transitions; half-converters; half-gateway architecture; mapping functions partitioning; parallel model; protocol converters; target protocols; transition sequences; Automata; Computer networks; Contracts; IP networks; Information science; Protocols; System recovery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1990, and Exhibition. 'Communications: Connecting the Future', GLOBECOM '90., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-87942-632-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1990.116811

Filename

116811