UML for protocol engineering - extension and experiences

Juha Pärssinen; Niklas von Knorring; Jukka Heinonen; Markku Turunen

doi:10.1109/TOOLS.2000.848753

UML for protocol engineering - extension and experiences

Juha Pärssinen, Niklas von Knorring, Jukka Heinonen, Markku Turunen

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Abstract

This paper presents a Unified Modeling Language profile for describing communications protocols. UML is a popular standardized, general-purpose visual language, but the current version lacks formal action semantics which is needed to define any complicated communications system. It is also difficult to generate an efficient protocol specific implementation from standard UML notation only. The authors developed a Graphical Protocol Description Language, a UML profile, to fulfil the needs of protocol engineering, UML stereotypes are used to add protocol-specific semantic information to class diagrams, enabling code generation for protocol implementations. GPDL contains graphical elements and a textual language that is used to describe actions in statechart transitions called the Generic Action Extension Language. A system described with GPDL can be converted to an implementation for any protocol framework. As an example a chain of tools which performs a translation from GPDL to SDL was developed by the authors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings 33rd International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems TOOLS 33
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	0-7695-0731-X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TOOLS.2000.848753
Publication status	Published - 2000
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	33rd International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, TOOLS 33 - Mont-Sain-Michel, France Duration: 5 Jun 2000 → 8 Jun 2000

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Conference	33rd International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, TOOLS 33
Country/Territory	France
City	Mont-Sain-Michel
Period	5/06/00 → 8/06/00

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Pärssinen, J, Knorring, NV, Heinonen, J & Turunen, M 2000, UML for protocol engineering - extension and experiences. in Proceedings 33rd International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems TOOLS 33. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 33rd International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, TOOLS 33, Mont-Sain-Michel, France, 5/06/00. https://doi.org/10.1109/TOOLS.2000.848753

UML for protocol engineering - extension and experiences. / Pärssinen, Juha; Knorring, Niklas von; Heinonen, Jukka et al.
Proceedings 33rd International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems TOOLS 33. IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2000.

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