Rationale of the project

Several reasons make the design of an architectural framework for integrated implementation based on ALF/ILP concepts now both feasible and attractive. The rationale of the project is based on the following:

• New applications, such as multimedia with shared work space, have stringent performance and service requirements. Many implementation of communication protocols do not meet the performance requirements.
• The increase of processor speeds and the discrepancy between processor and memory performance is pushing toward the integration of data manipulation operations. Performance enhancements to the ASN.1 encoding facilitate the problem of the implementation of a presentation filter [9].
• the architecture that will be developed within this project will facilitate more efficient implementation for a given functionality and automatically generate the communication subsystem for a specific distributed application.
• There is a need of formal description techniques in order to capture the need of applications and to validate the generated communication software.