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A Methodology for Specification-Based Performance Analysis of Protocols

Nounou, Nihal

The designer of communication protocols has to formulate rules to govern the communications between processes that are distributed; share common resources concurrently and asynchronously; communicate through unreliable channels that incur random delays; and behave in a time-dependent fashion. The first step is to formally specify the behavior of each of the communicating processes in the protocol. The protocol designer then has to analyze their concurrent behavior to ensure that it satisfies given functional requirements. He also has to analyze their timing behavior to ensure that is meets given timing requirements. The author addresses the specification and analysis of timing requirements and performance measures of protocols.

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Academic Units
Computer Science
Publisher
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
Series
Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports, CUCS-249-86
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November 2, 2011