Paper Info
Title
An overview of ASN.1
Abstract
In order for communication to occure, it is necessary to specify the type and format of the information to be exchanged. In general, distributed application protocols use very complex types of information. It is therefore useful to have a formal tool that permits the precise definition of the types of information exchanged. It is also useful to have a set of rules that specifies the format of the values for each of the types. Each instance or value of a type must be converted to this format before transmission. Abstract Syntax One (ASN.1) with its associated encoding rules is an example of a formal tool for specifying the type and transfer format of type values. This tool has been used extensively within existing OSI application protocols as well as many new applications. In this paper we present an overview of ASN.1 and its encoding rules. We also present a summary of programming tools for the automatic processing of ASN.1. A number of proposed extensions to ASN.1 are also discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
1991
10.1016/0169-7552(92)90014-H
Conformance testing methodologies and architectures for OSI protocols
Keywords
DocType
Volume
abstract syntax,compilers,open systems interconnection,languages,external data representation
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
5
0169-7552
0-8186-5352-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
5.52
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gerald Neufeld139480.81
Son Vuong232543.15