Protocol Test Systems VIII

Protocol Test Systems VIII
Author: Ana Cavalli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 038734988X

IWPTS'95 (International Workshop on Protocol Test Systems) is being held this year at !NT (Institut National des Telecommunications), Evry, France, from 4 to 6 September, 1995. IWPTS'95 is the eighth of a series of annual meetings sponsored by the IFIP Working Group WG6.1 dedicated to "Architecture and Protocols for Computer Networks". The seven previous workshops were held in Vancouver (Canada, 1988), Berlin (Germany, 1989), Mclean (USA, 1990), Leidschendam (The Netherlands, 1991), Montreal (Canada, 1992), Pau (France, 1993) and Tokyo (Japan, 1994). The workshop is a meeting place where both research and industry, theory and practice come together. By bringing both researchers and practitioners together, IWPTS opens up the communication between these groups. This helps keep the research vital and improves the state of the practitioner's art. Forty-eight papers have been submitted to IWPTS'95 and all of them have been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee and additional reviewers. The completed reviewers list is included in this Proceedings. Based on these reviews, the Program Committee selected 26 for oral presentation and 4 to be presented as posters. Two specially invited papers complete the Workshop Program, which is composed of ten sessions: Testing Methods (Session 1), Test Environments (Session 2), Theoretical Framework (Session 3), Algorithms and Languages (Session 4), Test Generation 1 (Session 5), Testability (Session 6), Test Generation 2 (Session 7), Industrial Applications (Session 8), Distributed Testing and performance (Session 9) and Test Management (Session 10).

Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification XIV

Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification XIV
Author: S.T. Vuong
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387348670

This PSTV'94 Symposium is the fourteenth of a series of annual meetings organized under the auspices of IFIP W.G. 6.1, a Working Group dedicated to "Architectures and Protocols for Computer Networks". This is the oldest and most established symposium in the emerging field of protocol engineering which has spawn many international conferences including FORTE (International Conference on Formal Description Tech niques), IWPTS (International Workshop on Protocol Test Systems), ICNP (Interna tional Conference on Network Protocols) and CAY (Conference on Computer-Aided Verification). The main objective of this PSTV symposium is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in industry and academia interested in advances in using formal methods and methodologies to specify, develop, test and verify communication protocols and distributed systems. This year's PSTV symposium enjoys a nice mixture of formal methods and practical issues in network protocols through the invited addresses of three outstanding speakers, Ed Brinksma (University of Twente), Raj Jain (Ohio State University) and David Tennenhouse (MIT) as well as 5 tutorials, in addition to 9 techni cal sessions and two practical panel sessions. The 5 tutorials are offered on the first day in two parallel tracks for intensive exposure on hot topics of current interest. This year, out of 51 submissions the Program Committee selected 18 regular papers (with an allotment of 16 pages in the Proceedings) and 9 mini-papers (of 8 pages).

Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification XV

Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification XV
Author: Piotr Dembinski
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2016-01-09
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387348921

This volume presents the latest research worldwide on communications protocols, emphasizing specification and compliance testing. It presents the complete proceedings of the fifteenth meeting on `Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification' arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing.

Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification, XII

Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification, XII
Author: R.J. Linn
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1483293343

For more than a decade, researchers and engineers have been addressing the problem of the application of formal description techniques to protocol specification, implementation, testing and verification. This book identifies the many successes that have been achieved within the industrial framework and the difficulties encountered in applying theoretical methods to practical situations. Issues discussed include: testing and certification; verification; validation; environments and automated tools; formal specifications; protocol conversion; implementation; specification languages and models. Consideration is also given to the concerns surrounding education available to students and the need to upgrade and develop this through sponsorship of a study of an appropriate curriculum at both undergraduate and graduate levels. It is hoped this publication will stimulate such support and inspire further research in this important arena.

Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification

Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification
Author: Atsushi Togashi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2013-06-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0387352716

FORTE/PSTV '97 addresses Formal Description Techniques (FDTs) applicable to Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols (such as Estelle, LOTOS, SDL, ASN.1, TTCN, Z, Automata, Process Algebra, Logic). The conference is a forum for presentation of the state-of-the-art in theory, application, tools and industrialization of FDTs, and provides an excellent orientation for newcomers.

Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification

Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification
Author: Stan Budkowski
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0387353941

Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification addresses formal description techniques (FDTs) applicable to distributed systems and communication protocols. It aims to present the state of the art in theory, application, tools and industrialization of FDTs. Among the important features presented are: FDT-based system and protocol engineering; FDT-application to distributed systems; Protocol engineering; Practical experience and case studies. Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification comprises the proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Formal Description Techniques for Distributed Systems and Communication Protocols and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing, held in November 1998, Paris, France. Formal Description Techniques and Protocol Specification, Testing and Verification is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate-level course on Distributed Systems or Communications, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.

Communication Protocol Specification and Verification

Communication Protocol Specification and Verification
Author: Richard Lai
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1461555493

Communication protocols are rules whereby meaningful communication can be exchanged between different communicating entities. In general, they are complex and difficult to design and implement. Specifications of communication protocols written in a natural language (e.g. English) can be unclear or ambiguous, and may be subject to different interpretations. As a result, independent implementations of the same protocol may be incompatible. In addition, the complexity of protocols make them very hard to analyze in an informal way. There is, therefore, a need for precise and unambiguous specification using some formal languages. Many protocol implementations used in the field have almost suffered from failures, such as deadlocks. When the conditions in which the protocols work correctly have been changed, there has been no general method available for determining how they will work under the new conditions. It is necessary for protocol designers to have techniques and tools to detect errors in the early phase of design, because the later in the process that a fault is discovered, the greater the cost of rectifying it. Protocol verification is a process of checking whether the interactions of protocol entities, according to the protocol specification, do indeed satisfy certain properties or conditions which may be either general (e.g., absence of deadlock) or specific to the particular protocol system directly derived from the specification. In the 80s, an ISO (International Organization for Standardization) working group began a programme of work to develop formal languages which were suitable for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). This group called such languages Formal Description Techniques (FDTs). Some of the objectives of ISO in developing FDTs were: enabling unambiguous, clear and precise descriptions of OSI protocol standards to be written, and allowing such specifications to be verified for correctness. There are two FDTs standardized by ISO: LOTOS and Estelle. Communication Protocol Specification and Verification is written to address the two issues discussed above: the needs to specify a protocol using an FDT and to verify its correctness in order to uncover specification errors in the early stage of a protocol development process. The readership primarily consists of advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students, communication software developers, telecommunication engineers, EDP managers, researchers and software engineers. It is intended as an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate textbook, and a reference for communication protocol professionals.

Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification, XI

Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification, XI
Author: Bengt Jonsson
Publisher: North Holland
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1991
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

This book contains original contributions on theory, applications and experiences from the use of advanced techniques applied to distributed systems. The emphasis is on services and protocols. Specific areas addressed include: Specification languages and models, Formal specification, Testing and certification, Implementation and Environments and automated tools. In addition to these more traditional topics, contributions are included on: bull;Specification, testing and verification of real-time properties; bull;Novel methods for formal specification of realistic services; bull;Automated and semi-automated analysis of non-finite-state systems; bull;Design and implementation by stepwise refinement and bull;Applications of the above to new generations of high-speed networks, multi-media services and distributed environments for computer supported cooperative work.

Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification, IX

Protocol Specification, Testing, and Verification, IX
Author: Ed Brinksma
Publisher: North Holland
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1990
Genre: Computer network protocols
ISBN:

Researchers and practitioners concerned with the application of formal methods to the design, description, analysis, implementation and testing of open systems contributed to this book. It is the ninth in a successful series of annual volumes.