The framework of component-based protocol architecture for embedded systems

Embedded systems are source-limited and restricted by computational capability and memory space. Communication devices, as a type of embedded system to serve for the communication protocols, must modify the protocol implementation for more efficiency and higher performance. We present The component-based communication protocol architecture (CCPA) to divide the protocols into components. It mainly includes component development platform, component library, and component assembly platform. The embedded operating systems also modify the network module to support the components as communication service. The protocols obeyed CCPA leads to smaller memory space, more flexibility, more configuration ability, better concurrency, and multi data channel support.