Composing protocol frameworks for active wireless networks

This article describes a new model for a composable protocol framework that is suitable for the rapid development of any application-specific service and its deployment in the network. The class-hierarchy model described here enables users to compose their own custom, flexible frameworks from either predefined or custom protocol components tailored to an application's needs. We validate experimentally that application-specific frameworks implementing custom protocols can be developed to improve performance of applications over wireless networks.

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