Table of Contents

Part I Fundamentals
1. Introduction
2. Networks
3. Applications
4. The OSI Framework
5. Internet protocol suite
Part II Reference framework
6. Object model
7. System model
8. Service model
9. Communication model
10. Protocol model
11. Composition model
12. Differences from the OSI framework
Part III Case studies
13. Implementation considerations
14. Modularization of TCP
15. System architecture
16. Protocol operating system
17. Application programming interface
18. Performance measurements
19. Evaluation of software engineering aspects
Summary
Appendix A Internet terminology and its MCS equivalent
Appendix B Network details
Appendix C TCP details

Courses

Networking--Advanced  (Computer Science)
Object Oriented Analysis and Design / Patterns  (Computer Science)

Author Bios

Stefan Boecking is currently head of the Internet research group at Siemens AG, and lectures on Multimedia Communication Systems at the Technical University of Munich.

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This unique book presents a new approach to the design and implementation of modern network protocols and systems, using an object-oriented modeling technique. It shows how the concept of a modular and object-oriented architecture is an attractive and effective alternative to conventional methods. The book challenges the approach of designing completely new services and protocols for each new class of application requirements and network properties. Instead, it demonstrates how to successfully implement protocols and services by composing them from a set of already specified and tested elementary protocol objects, according to the application needs and the network environment.

A key part of the design process is a reference framework providing a common terminology and modeling technique, and the author introduces a modern framework deliberately using terminology familiar to well-known reference models. He draws on his extensive experience, using accessible case studies to look in detail at the development of object-oriented network protocols. He then goes on to investigate how to achieve improvements in communications performance and reduced costs in protocol implementation.

If you are a computer professional interested in understanding and developing reusable protocol software, then this book is an essential read. It will give you:

- a vital understanding of networks from a new perspective
- a clear vision of the benefits of object-oriented protocols
- a foundation for the object-oriented design and implementation of network communication protocols that you can put into practice, easing and accelerating the process

The book is divided into three parts: fundamentals of networks and applications; a reference framework for modular communication systems; and case studies of system designs and implementations.

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