A Class-Chest for Deriving Transport Protocols

Development of new transport protocols or protocol algorithms suffers from the complexity of the envir onment in which they ar e intended to run. Modeling techniques attempt to avoid this by simulating the envir onment. Another approach to promoting rapid prototyping of protocols and protocol algorithms is to provide a pre-built infrastructure that is common to transport protocols, so that the focus is placed on the protocol-specific aspects. The MetaTransport Library is a library of C++ base classes that implement or abstract out the mundane functions of a protocol; new protocol implementations are derived from the base classes. The result is a fully viable user-level transport protocol implementation, with emphasis on modularity. The collection of base classes form a "class-chest" of tools from which protocols can be developed and studied with as little change to a normal Unix environment as possible.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: LCN
• Authors: W. Timothy Strayer
• Keywords: Base Classes, Computer Networks, LCN 1996, Protocol Algorithms, Transport Protocol