A Language-Based Approach to Protocol Implementation

Mark B. Abbott; Larry L. Peterson

doi:10.1109/90.222903

A Language-Based Approach to Protocol Implementation

Mark B. Abbott, Larry L. Peterson

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Morpheus is a special-purpose programming language that facilitates the efficient implementation of communication protocols. Protocols are divided into three categories, called shapes, so that they can inherit code and data structures based on their category. The programmer implements a particular protocol by refining the inherited structure. Morpheus optimization techniques reduce per-layer overhead on time-critical operations to a few assembler instructions even though the protocol stack is not determined until run time. This supports divide-and-conquer simplification of the programming task by minimizing the penalty for decomposing complex protocols into combinations of simpler protocols.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4-19
Number of pages	16
Journal	IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/90.222903
State	Published - Feb 1993

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