Annual Report 2010 - Fachgruppe Informatik an der RWTH Aachen ...

Mechanisms, Models, and Tools for Flexible Protocol Development and
Accurate Network Experimentation
Olaf Landsiedel
The diversity of applications in the Internet and the heterogeneity of today's networked
platforms make the development of communication protocols complex and time-consuming.
This work introduces mechanisms, models, and tools to reduce the complexity and
engineering effort required for protocol development and evaluation. It makes the following
three key contributions:
1. Similarities in protocol mechanisms are extracted into modular building blocks to reduce
the complexity of communication system development.
2. We introduce a platform abstraction layer to gradually evolve protocol implementations
across platforms avoiding frequent reimplementation.
3. Automated instrumentation of models with system properties allows to accurately
analyzing the time dependent behavior and power consumption of networked devices.
Evaluators: Prof. Dr. Klaus Wehrle, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Joseph Anthony, UC Berkeley
Date of oral exam: 22 March 2010
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