Next Generation Protocol Architectures for High Performance Networking

HIPPARCH - EC-AUS004

Keywords: high performance networking, high speed networks, communication protocols, compilers

Start Date: 1 January 94 / Status: finished / Duration: 24 months

The project addresses the design of efficient and application oriented communication subsystems over high speed networks. The objectives are:

to design an architecture for integrated design of communication protocols. Based on the knowledge available from integration techniques for communication protocols, techniques for grouping protocol functions in order to meet specific application requirements will be proposed;
to define/select a specification language to describe the application requirements;
to design and implement an efficient runtime system (execution environment) for the code generated by the compiler, which exploits multiprocessor systems;
to design and implement a compiler to generate automatically the customised communication subsystem based on integrated protocol modules;
to build a prototype integrated implementation of communication protocols for test applications.