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Communication protocols are essential for the operation of computer networks and telecommunication systems, defining how these systems interact, the order of interactions, and data formats. Protocol Engineering encompasses the design, validation, and implementation of these protocols. The first part of the book covers the fundamentals, introducing concepts such as service, protocol, layer, and layered architecture, along with the key elements for protocol description using a model language. It also outlines important protocol functions. The second part focuses on describing communication protocols, presenting various formal methods central to Protocol Engineering. The author discusses fundamental description methods like finite state machines, Petri nets, process calculi, and temporal logics, which serve as semantic models for formal description techniques. Each main description approach is represented by a technique, including SDL and LOTOS, and the use of UML for protocol description is also surveyed. The third part addresses the protocol life cycle and development stages, offering systematic design approaches, verification methods, implementation techniques, and testing strategies, particularly conformance and interoperability tests using the TTCN test description language. Throughout, the book references the XDT (eXample Data Transfer) protocol to illustrate description techniques and validation approaches. This work se

This volume contains the proceedings of FORTE 2003, the 23rd IFIP TC 6/ WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and D- tributed Systems, held in Berlin, Germany, September 29–October 2, 2003. FORTE denotes a series of international working conferences on formal descr- tion techniques (FDTs) applied to computer networks and distributed systems. The conference series started in 1981 under the name PSTV. In 1988 a s- ond series under the name FORTE was set up. Both series were united to FORTE/PSTV in 1996. Two years ago the conference name was changed to its current form. The last ? ve meetings of this long conference series were held in Paris, France (1998), Beijing, China (1999), Pisa, Italy (2000), Cheju Island, Korea (2001), and Houston, USA (2002). The 23rd FORTE conference was especially dedicated to the application of formal description techniques to practice, especially in the Internet and c- munication domain. The scope of the papers presented at FORTE 2003 covered the application of formal techniques, timed automata, FDT-based design, v- i? cation and testing of communication systems and distributed systems, and the veri? cation of security protocols. In addition, work-in-progress papers were presented which have been published in a separate volume.