Paper Info
Title
The design and implementation of an ASN.1-C compiler
Abstract
Abstract syntax notation one (ASN.1) has been widely used in international standard specification: its transfer-syntax, the basic encoding rules (BER), is used as the external data representation. A BER implementation called the ED library is presented. The ED library includes a number of encoding and decoding routines that may be used as primitive functions to compose encoders and decoders for arbitrarily complicated ASN.1 data types. Based on the ED library an ASN.1-C compiler, called CASN1, is designed and implemented to free the protocol implementers from the arduous work of translating protocol-defined data-types and constructing their encoders and decoders. Given an ASN.1 protocol specification, CASN1 automatically translates the input ASN.1 modules into C and generates the BER encoders and decoders for the protocol defined data-types. The CASN1 design principles, user interface, and some example applications are discussed. The performance of the ED library and generated CASN1 code is also measured and discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
1990
10.1109/32.60300
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
decoding,encoding,program compilers,protocols,standards,ASN.1-C compiler,C,CASN1,ED library,abstract syntax notation one,basic encoding rules,decoding,design,external data representation,implementation,international standard specification,protocol,transfer-syntax,user interface
Abstract data type,Specification language,Programming language,External Data Representation,Abstract Syntax Notation One,Computer science,Compiler,Theoretical computer science,Data type,Decoding methods,User interface
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
10
0098-5589
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
2.55
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gerald Neufeld139480.81
Yueli Yang2132.55