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Commit 88bfe766 authored by Sven G. Robertz's avatar Sven G. Robertz
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added a bit on library structure

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sample user_type another_user_type_instance;
\end{verbatim}
\section{User actions}
\section{The LabComm system}
User actions (similar to ioctl()) allowing the application or a higher level
The LabComm system consists of a compiler for generating code from the data
descriptions, and libraries providing LabComm communication facilities in,
currently, C, Java, Python, and C#.
\subsection{The LabComm compiler}
\subsection{The LabComm library}
The LabComm libraries contain functionality for the end-to-end transmission
of samples. They are divided into two layers, where the upper layer implements
the general encoding and decoding of samples, and the lower one deals with
the transmission of the encoded byte stream on a particular transport layer.
Thus, the LabComm communication stack looks like this:
\begin{verbatim}
_______________________
| Application |
+---------------------+
| encoder | decoder | to/from labcomm encoded byte stream
+----------+----------+
| writer | reader | transmit byte stream over particular transport
+----------+----------+
| transport layer / OS|
+---------------------+
\end{verbatim}
\subsubsection{LabComm actions}
(similar to ioctl())
The encoder/writer and decoder/reader interfaces consist of a set of actions
One example of this is that there is a a separate writer action for
transmitting signatures, allowing the writer to treat a signature differently
from encoded samples, e.g., to allow handshaking during channel setup.
User actions allow the application or a higher level
protocol to communicate with the underlying transport layer through the LabComm
encoder A special case of this is a specific action informing the underlying
transport that a signature is being sent (to allow handshaking)
encoder.
One example is reliable communication, which is controlled from the application
but needs to be implemented for each transport at at the reader/writer level.
(Or not, e.g., TCP)
\section{LabComm is not...}
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