Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Evolution of application and network layers -- 1.2. Summary of contributions -- 1.3. Book structure -- Chapter 2. Transport Protocols State of the Art -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Transport layer reference models -- 2.2.1. OSI model -- 2.2.2. TCP/IP model -- 2.2.3. Transport layer -- 2.2.4. Transport services -- 2.3. Transport functions and mechanisms -- 2.3.1. Error control -- 2.3.2. Congestion control -- 2.3.3. Summary -- 2.4. IETF transport protocols -- 2.4.1. TCP -- 2.4.2. UDP -- 2.4.3. SCTP -- 2.4.4. DCCP -- 2.4.5. MPTCP -- 2.5. Summary -- Chapter 3. Semantic Modeling of Transport Protocols and Services -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Model and semantic-driven architecture -- 3.2.1. Model-driven architecture -- 3.2.2. Ontology-driven architecture -- 3.3. Design of a QoS ontology framework -- 3.3.1. Quality of Service definition -- 3.3.2. ITU-T X.641 framework -- 3.3.3. Service -- 3.3.4. Service user -- 3.3.5. Service provider -- 3.3.6. QoS characteristic -- 3.3.7. QoS requirement -- 3.3.8. QoS parameter -- 3.3.9. QoS function -- 3.3.10. QoS mechanism -- 3.4. Design of a QoS transport ontology for the next generation transport layer -- 3.4.1. Ontology representation -- 3.4.2. X.641 QoS ontology -- 3.4.3. QoS transport requirements -- 3.4.4. QoS transport mechanisms, functions and protocols -- 3.5. QoS transport ontology specification -- 3.5.1. TCP semantic description -- 3.5.2. UDP semantic description -- 3.5.3. SCTP semantic description -- 3.5.4. DCCP semantic description -- 3.5.5. MPTCP semantic description -- 3.6. Usage of the QoS transport ontology specification -- 3.6.1. QoS transport services characterization -- 3.6.2. Transport components and transport composite characterization -- 3.7. Summary.

Chapter 4. Model-Driven Design Methodology of Transport Mechanisms and Functions -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Software engineering process -- 4.2.1. Unified Modeling Language -- 4.2.2. UML 2.4.1-based methodology -- 4.2.3. UML diagrams -- 4.2.4. Summary and additional resources -- 4.3. Applying the UML-based software engineering methodology for transport services -- 4.3.1. Contextual model of transport functions and mechanisms -- 4.3.2. Analysis of requirements guiding transport functions -- 4.3.4. Design of transport functions and mechanisms -- 4.4. Summary -- Chapter 5. Model-Driven Specification and Validation of Error Control Transport Mechanisms and Functions -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Design of an error control function -- 5.2.1. Behavior specification of the sending side protocol entity -- 5.2.2. Behavior specification of the receiving side protocol entity -- 5.3. Functional validation of the error control function -- 5.3.1. Functional validation using a perfect medium -- 5.3.2. Functional validation using an imperfect medium -- 5.4. A new design of the error control function -- 5.4.1. Functional validation using an imperfect medium -- 5.4.2. More open questions -- 5.5. A model-driven simulation environment -- 5.5.1. Model-driven simulation framework -- 5.5.2. Model-driven network simulator package -- 5.5.3. Lossy medium simulator -- 5.5.4. Delayed medium simulator -- 5.5.5. Bandwidth-limited medium simulator -- 5.6. Chapter summary -- 5.7. Appendix -- Chapter 6.Model-Driven Specification and Validation of Congestion Control Transport Mechanisms and Functions -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Design of a congestion control function -- 6.2.1. Behavior specification of the sending and receiving side protocol entities -- 6.2.2. The TCP-friendly rate control (TFRC) specification -- 6.2.3. Detailed TFRC design.

6.3. Functional validation of the congestion control function -- 6.3.1. Case study 1: continuous stream of messages (no time constraints) -- 6.3.2. Case study 2: GSM audio stream -- 6.3.3. Case study 3: MJPEG video stream -- 6.4. Summary -- 6.5. Appendix -- Chapter 7. Specification and Validation of QoS-Oriented Transport Mechanisms and Functions -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Contextual model of a QoS-oriented transport functions -- 7.3. Contextual model of a QoS-oriented error control functions -- 7.3.1. Partially ordered/partially reliable transport services -- 7.4. Contextual model of a QoS-oriented congestion control functions -- 7.4.1. QoS-aware TFRC congestion control -- 7.5. Design of the QoS-oriented error control functions -- 7.5.1. Basis of a fully reliable SACK-based function -- 7.5.2. Design of a partially reliable SACK-based function -- 7.5.3. Design of a partially reliable function -- 7.5.4. Design of a differentiated and partially reliable function -- 7.5.5. Design of a time-constrained, differentiated and partially reliable function -- 7.6. Design of the QoS-oriented congestion control function -- 7.6.1. Basis of a TCP-friendly rate control function -- 7.6.2. Design of a time-constrained and differentiated congestion control function -- 7.7. Summary -- Chapter 8. Architectural Frameworks for a QoS-Oriented Transport Protocol -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Communication architecture requirements -- 8.3. Architectural frameworks for communication protocols -- 8.3.1. QoS-oriented architecture -- 8.3.2. Architectural frameworks for communication protocols -- 8.4. Design of a composite and QoS-oriented transport protocol -- 8.4.1. Design of the fully programmable transport protocol -- 8.5. Evaluation of the FPTP transport protocol -- 8.5.1. FPTP TD-TFRC mechanism -- 8.5.2. FPTP D-PR and TD-PR mechanisms -- 8.5.3. FPTP TD-TFRC mechanisms.

8.5.4. Analysis of results -- 8.6. Summary -- 8.7. Appendix -- Chapter 9. Service-Oriented and Component-Based Transport Protocol -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. State of the art on modern software architectural frameworks -- 9.2.1. Service-oriented architecture -- 9.2.2. Component-based design -- 9.2.3. Summary -- 9.3. Design guidelines of a component-based and service-oriented architecture for the next generation transport layer -- 9.3.1. Service-oriented architecture transport layer (SOATL) -- 9.3.2. Service-component architecture for transport protocols (SCATP) -- 9.3.3. Semantic model guiding the selection and composition of transport services -- 9.4. FPTP semantic description -- 9.4.1. FPTP individual -- 9.4.2. Service characterization inferences based on components axioms -- 9.5. Summary -- 9.6. Appendix -- Chapter 10. Adaptive Transport Protocol -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. The enhanced transport protocol -- 10.2.1. Adaptive composite communication architecture -- 10.2.2. Behavioral adaptation -- 10.2.3. Structural adaptation -- 10.3. Summary -- Chapter 11. Autonomic Transport Protocol -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Autonomic computing -- 11.3. Self-managing functions -- 11.4. Architecture -- 11.4.1. Autonomic elements -- 11.4.2. Autonomic orchestrators -- 11.4.3. Policies -- 11.4.4. Knowledge base -- 11.4.5. Summary -- 11.5. Design guidelines of an autonomic computing architecture for the nextgeneration transport layer -- 11.5.1. Self-managing functionalities -- 11.5.2. Architecture -- 11.5.3. Autonomic orchestrators -- 11.5.4. Policy framework -- 11.5.5. Knowledge base -- 11.6. Summary -- 11.7. Appendix -- Conclusions -- Perspectives -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.