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We present an industrial project conducted at Ericsson Danmark A/S, Telebit where formal methods in the form of Coloured Petri Nets (CP-nets or CPNs) have been used for the specification of an interoperability protocol for routing packets between fixed core networks and mobile ad-hoc networks. The interoperability protocol ensures that a packet flow between a host in a core network and a mobile node in an ad-hoc network is always relayed via one of the closest gateways connecting the core network and the mobile ad-hoc network. This paper shows how integrated use of CP-nets and application-specific visualisation have been applied to build a model-based prototype of the interoperability protocol. The prototype consists of two parts: a CPN model that formally specifies the protocol mechanisms and a graphical user interface for experimenting with the protocol. The project demonstrates that the use of formal modelling combined with the use of application-specific visualisation can be an effective approach to rapidly construct an executable prototype of a communication protocol.
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Kristensen, L.M., Westergaard, M., Nørgaard, P.C. (2005). Model-Based Prototyping of an Interoperability Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. In: Romijn, J., Smith, G., van de Pol, J. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3771. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11589976_16
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