DocumentCode
1490984
Title
dlpsim: a teaching harness for data link protocols
Author
King, Peter J B
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
Volume
40
Issue
3
fYear
1997
fDate
8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
172
Lastpage
178
Abstract
Protocol test harnesses have been in use for a number of years to assist implementers in checking conformance of their implementations with reference implementations. The system described here is designed for teaching the principles of data link protocols. Students write protocol implementations in a high-level language and exercise them on a simulator. The simulator checks that data is not duplicated or lost by the protocol. On suitable terminals, visualization of the transmitting window and of the frames traversing the link can provide useful feedback to students. Simple estimates of throughput are also calculated
Keywords
computer aided instruction; computer science education; protocols; teaching; CAI; computer science; computer simulation; conformance checking; data link protocols education; dlpsim; high-level language; protocol implementations; teaching; transmitting window visualisation; Computational modeling; Data visualization; Education; Feedback; Helium; High level languages; Natural languages; Protocols; Testing; Throughput;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Education, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9359
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/13.618026
Filename
618026
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