Automatic Generation of Dynamically Adaptable Protocols

Distributed multimedia applications have different quality of service (QoS) requirements from the simple reliable data transfer QoS provided by transport protocols like TCP and TP4. New protocols can be created to handle some of the general QoS requirements of distributed multimedia applications although this is a costly process in terms of time and money. In addition, given the variety of different multimedia applications and their different requirements, hand-crafting tailored protocols is not a viable approach for the future. A solution to this problem is to automate the process for protocol generation. This paper examines and contrasts two relevant models of automatic protocol generation, namely stub compilation and runtime adaptive approaches. Then, a new model based on the combined strengths of the previous approaches is introduced. The proposed model envelopes concepts like application layer framing, integrated layer processing and dynamic adaption of functionality