Design and Implementation of a Dynamic-Reconfigurable Architecture for Protocol Stack
Mahdi Niamanesh, Sirwah Sabetghadam, Reza Yousefzadeh Rahaghi, Rasool Jalili · 2014
Abstract. Future communication and computation devices require mech-anisms for on the fly reconfiguration in their protocol stack to operate in different situations and networks. This paper proposes a component-based framework for dynamic-reconfigurable protocol stack. The frame-work presents required phases for reconfiguration of a running protocol component including freezing the component in a safe state, changing the component, and state transferring to a new component. Considering that every running protocol component communicates with at least one peer component, unlike related work we perform finding safe states and state transferring with respect to the peer component. Our framework supports synchronous reconfiguration of two peer protocol components in two communicating protocol stacks. Keywords: Protocol Stack, Dynamic Reconfiguration, Software Framework