A protocol analyser for the monitoring and analysis of OSI networks

• Autores: Nasser Modiri
• Localización: Panel '92: actas, XVIII Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática, 1992, págs. 792-811
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The widespread acceptance world-wide of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) has resulted in an increasing number of computer networks being installed that are based on internationally agreed standard protocols defined by the International Standards Organization (ISO). Associated with any computer network there must be instrumentation for the monitoring and analysis of the network performance. Most instruments currently available for use with OSI networks, however, are relatively low-level in so much that they are concerned mainly with monitoring and analysing the usage of the transmission medium. In contrast, the protocol analyser described in this paper, in addition to performing such functions, is also capable of performing detailed anaysis of the interactions between any two systems connected to a network and the verification of their operation against the adopted protocol standards of the network. Also, the results of the analysis operations are presented in a high-level, graphical style that requires a minimum of knowledge about communication protocols on the part of the user.