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| G.M. Karam, "Comments on 'Measurement of Ada Overhead in OSI-Style Communications Systems'," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 1435-1439, December, 1990. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/32.62440, author = {G.M. Karam}, title = {Comments on 'Measurement of Ada Overhead in OSI-Style Communications Systems'}, journal ={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, volume = {16}, number = {12}, issn = {0098-5589}, year = {1990}, pages = {1435-1439}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/32.62440}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - JOUR JO - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering TI - Comments on 'Measurement of Ada Overhead in OSI-Style Communications Systems' IS - 12 SN - 0098-5589 SP1435 EP1439 EPD - 1435-1439 A1 - G.M. Karam, PY - 1990 KW - Ada overhead; OSI-style communications systems; comparison method; control flow; protocol; coordination required; multiple entities; lower layer; optimizations; performance efficiency; Ada; computer communications software; open systems; programming; protocols; standards VL - 16 JA - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ER - | |||
The commenter disagrees with the comparison method used and questions the usefulness of the results obtained in the above named work by N.R. Howes and A.C. Weaver. It is claimed that the comparison method is weak because Howes and Weaver did not take into account: the impact of control flow within a protocol, the coordination required between multiple entities executing within a layer and which share the services of a lower layer, and optimizations of R.J.A. Buhr's architecture (1984) which would have improved its performance efficiency.
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