A Protocol Analysis Platform Based on Open Source Software

Author

Li Hai ; Yu Yue-Yue ; Liu Chang ; Cui Li-Na

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Electron., Beijing Inst. of Technol., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

846

Lastpage

849

Abstract

Protocol analysis is very important for engineers for developing a complicate communication system, or for network administrators for supervision and fault diagnosis. Although several commercial protocol analyzers are available in the markets, they are too expensive or difficult to be altered to fit in with the needs of new protocols. In this paper, we present a protocol analysis platform based on open source software, which provides a general, extensible, and easy-to-use framework. We have implemented and tested fully functional prototype for TETRA trunking system, which can provide bit-level packet inspection, performance statistics, message flow analysis, and application information extraction. We demonstrate the utility and flexibility of our platform by three application examples.

Keywords

protocols; public domain software; radio networks; software architecture; telecommunication computing; TETRA trunking system; application information extraction; bit level packet inspection; communication system; fault diagnosis; message flow analysis; network administrators; open source software; performance statistics; protocol analysis platform; protocol analyzers; software architecture; supervision diagnosis; trunked radio system; Engines; Graphical user interfaces; Information retrieval; Open source software; Protocols; Prototypes; TETRA; network statistics; protocol analysis; protocol engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation, Measurement, Computer, Communication and Control (IMCCC), 2012 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5034-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMCCC.2012.204

Filename

6429039