Policies for dynamic stack composition

Currently, protocol stacks operate in various contexts and it is therefore not possible to know the required properties of a stack (both functional and non-functional) in advance. The stack has to be dynamically built up from components, based on the requirements and the momentary situation. The first step in building the stack is to determine the component types to be used and the stack architecture that has to define the way building blocks are connected. In this document we report on how to describe protocol building blocks, external requirements and how to build a stack from these descriptions. We give a detailed description of our composition algorithm. This research was supported by the Flemish Institute for the advancement of scientific-technological research in industry (IWT) # 990219(Pepita) Policies for dynamic stack composition Sam Michiels Frank Matthijs Report CW 313, February 2001