Objectives and expected results

The global objective of this two year project is to lay out an architecture for integrated design and implementation of next generation communication protocols. The main deliverable will be a software environment for the generation and configuration of communication modules for distributed applications.

The objectives of the architecture are the following:

• High performance operation of communication software. The performance increase can be achieved through the integrated design and implementation mechanism. This also requires the ability to specify appropriate grouping transport and presentation functions.
• Flexible and automatic configuration of communication protocols. The extension of the current tools to generate not only the coding and decoding procedures but the complete configuration of the integrated protocols will be needed to realize this flexibility goal. This will facilitate the programming of distributed applications by giving the means to the programmer to generate the communications submodule of an application according to the specific needs of this application.
• Integrate the enhanced transport mechanisms for new applications such as high performance multi-participant multimedia applications. In this context, the main objective is to configure the communication subsystem in order to achieve the best performance for a given functionality