Methodology, models and paradigms for a next generation transport layer design

The research domains developed in this dissertation include a model-driven methodology based on semantic models and various architectural paradigms aimed at designing and developing a transport layer of new generation. The first part presents the state of the art of transport protocols and introduces a model driven methodology and an ontology semantic model implementation aimed at designing advanced transport protocols. The second part presents our work related to the design (UML) and the implementation (JAVA) of a component-based transport protocol. An extension to this protocol based on the service-component and the service-oriented architectures is proposed. A third part presents our contributions in the area of model-driven adaptive strategies aimed at managing behavioral and structural adaptation of transport protocols. Finally, a perspective is proposed for designing and developing a transport layer based on the component-oriented and the service-oriented approaches and integrating the autonomic computing framework and the semantic dimension provided by ontologies.