Object Oriented Network Protocols

This book provides a foundation for the object-oriented design and implementation of modular, composable, reusable, and/or extendable network communication protocols. Programmers will then be able to implement protocols and services by composing (rather than programming) them from a set of already specified, implemented and tested elementary protocol objects according to the application needs and the network environment. The book is organised in three parts: fundamentals of networks and applications, reference framework for modular communication systems and case studies of system designs and implementations.