Networking in Open Systems

The contributions provide an overview of research in tele- communications and distributed systems. The main part con- concentrates on the evaluation of the CCITT recommendations and ISO standards with respect to OSI and ISDN and user ser- vices. It also reviews new applications that are becoming a- vailable in modern offices, manufacturing, and the public domain. Different approaches are discussed as to how these applications can be builtmore easily with advanced program- ming rools. Deals with operating systems support for commu- nication systems.

Autorentext
Günter Müller is senior scientist for Biochemistry at Aventis Pharma Germany, Frankfurt am Main, and honorary lecturer for genetics at the University of Munich. He was born in Peissenberg (Germany) and studied anthropology, zoology, genetics and biochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, finishing his PhD thesis under the supervision of R. Zimmermann in 1987. After post-doctoral fellowships at the universities of Ulm and Heidelberg, he joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1990 and received his habilitation at the University of Munich in 1996. He is interested in molecular mechanisms in both lower eukaryotes and mammalian cells, and their use as drug targets for metabolic disorders.

Inhalt
The work of CCITT in the field of telematic services.- NBS Program in Open Systems Interconnection (OSI).- OSI and research.- Management in OSI.- Considerations for security in the OSI architecture.- ISDN-technology, networking concepts and applications.- Telecommunications trends in Europe.- SNA: Recent advances and additional requirements.- Integration of group communication into CCITT X.400 message handling systems.- Directory system requirements and the CCITT-model.- Database access in open systems.- Manufacturing automation protocol (MAP) OSI for factory communications.- Communication support for distributed processing: Design and implementation issues.- Commitment, Concurrency, and Recovery ISO-CASE and IBM LU.62.- Communication primitives in programming and specification languages.- Experiences with the accent network operating system.- Network operating system kernels for heterogeneous environments.- Request-response and multicast interprocess communication in the V kernel.- Communication support in operating systems for distributed transactions.- Replicated distributed processing.- Formal specification in OSI.- The dimension of time in protocol specification.- From protocol specification to implementation and test.- Methodology and framework for OSI conformance testing.- European harmonisation of OSI usage and conformance testing services.- ENC - IBM European Networking Center.