Protocol configuration and interoperability-a case study

Providing an application-tailored communication protocol increases the exploitation of service specific characteristics by any application. Especially, the configuration approach of communication protocols according to specified and requested application quality-of-service (QoS) requirements offers a highly flexible scenario to allow for a sufficient and appropriate protocol processing. The approaches of the function-based communication subsystem (F-CSS) and the dynamic configuration of protocols (Da CaPo) provide a basis for configuring specifically requested services. An important aspect for a future integration into the existing networking environment is the interoperability of configuration-based approaches. The case study presented evaluates the possibility of F-CSS and Da CaPo interoperability.