PROTEAN: A High-level Petri Net Tool for the Specification and Verification of Communication Protocols

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 301-316

  Billington, Jonathan ^a   Wheeler, Geoffrey R ^b   Wilbur Ham, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Telecom Australia Research Lab   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated verification; computer graphics; Petri nets; protocols; software CAD; specification animation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

NUMERICAL PETRI NETS; PROTEAN TOOL; SPECIFYING PROTOCOLS; VERIFYING PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0023983405     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.4651     Document Type: Article

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