NetPDL: An extensible XML-based language for packet header description

Computer Networks

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 688-706

  Risso, Fulvio ^a   Baldi, Mario ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Synchrodyne Networks Inc   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

NetPDL; Protocol description language; Protocol header description; XML

Indexed keywords

NETPDL; PACKET HEADERS; PROTOCOL DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE; PROTOCOL HEADER DESCRIPTION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; XML;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 31044456962     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2005.05.029     Document Type: Article

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