A Methodology for the Design and Implementation of Communication Protocols

This paper presents a coherent method which permits the specification, check out, and implementation of communication protocols. Although this work is mainly directed towards telephone signaling in a programmable environment, the philosophy and most of the tools can be effectively used to handle the most general situations in which two entities interact by any kind of protocol. Since the proposed approach reduces the possibility of errors and inconsistencies, minimizes the programming needed, and improves the documentation and understandability, we believe that this methodology will facilitate the installation or modification of complex trunk protocols and other communication protocols.