Communicating Systems with UML 2 (PDF)

This book gives a practical approach to modeling and analyzing
communication protocols using UML 2. Network protocols are always
presented with a point of view focusing on partial mechanisms and
starting models. This book aims at giving the basis needed for
anybody to model and validate their own protocols. It follows a
practical approach and gives many examples for the description and
analysis of well known basic network mechanisms for
protocols.

The book firstly shows how to describe and validate the main
protocol issues (such as synchronization problems, client-server
interactions, layer organization and behavior, etc.) in an easy and
understandable way. To do so, the book considers and presents the
main traditional network examples (e.g. unidirectional flows,
full-duplex com-munication, error recovering, alternating bit).
Finally, it presents the outputs resulting from a few simulations
of these UML models.

Other books usually only focus either on teaching UML or on
analyzing network protocols, however this book will allow readers
to model network protocols using a new perspective and integrating
these two views, so facilitating their comprehension and
development.

Any university student studying in the field of computing science,
or those working in telecommunications, embedded systems or
networking will find this book a very useful addition.