Subject: [Partial] Implementation of ForCES protocol for MSc dissertation

From: Abid Ghufran <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 08:39:59 +0000

Dear All,

I am grateful to all of you for your help and guidance.

I have finally decided to take up the ForCES protocol for my MSc dissertation. I have discussed the idea with my supervisor and have a formal approval for it. In this regard, I need your help and suggestions.

I would be implementing ForCES protocol and not the FE model, at the moment, due to limitation of time. But, in order to have a ForCES protcol in working, I believe I need to have a working program simulating the CE model and another program simulating the FE model (atleast that portion of the FE model, which interfaces and interacts with the CE [the Fp interface]). What do you suggest I should do?

Further, there are two apects to the communication between the FE and CE: 1) Control and 2) Data. In the pre-associatiion phase the FE and CE will exchange their information. In the post-association phase FE and CE exchange their information, with respect to their operational and functional roles (and characteristics). Now, if I work on the implementation of the ForCES protocol, it implies that CE would be involved in the exchange of both types of information, and amid the two phases. For the FE to participate, it needs to have data, to share with the CE. How do I make FE behave as an active component in this interaction with the CE? Do I need to have a full fledge implementation of the FE as well, alongwith CE's implementation?

How can the data within the FE simulated (or emulated) in the absence of a real-time NE comprising of CE and FE? I mean, if FE has to share data/information with CE, then how can that data be made meaaningful?

These queries might seem to you like a bit incoherent. Actually at the moment they represent few open ends in my mind, but once i have some information about them, they will be crucial for me to further decide for my thesis.

Thank you very much,

Abid Ghufran.

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