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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INF41-214</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3233/INF-1993-41-214</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Specification, validation and simulation of an event driven local computer network protocol</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Pranevitchius</surname><given-names>Henrikas</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Sintonen</surname><given-names>Leo</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Managment Informatics Department, Kaunas University of Technology, 3028 Kaunas, Studentų St. 50, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Software Systems Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology, Box 527, SF-33101 Tampere, Finland</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>1993</year></pub-date><volume>4</volume><issue>1-2</issue><fpage>199</fpage><lpage>216</lpage><abstract><p>An analysis of an event driven local area network protocol for special purposes in industrial applications is represented. The analysis is performed using the specification language ESTELLE/Ag and protocol analysis tool PRANAS-2. Validation was focused on the correctness media access algorithm, initialization of the protocol and recovery from error situations. The obtained simulation results can be used for comparison of the effectiveness of this protocol with other protocols.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>specification</kwd><kwd>validation</kwd><kwd>simulation</kwd><kwd>local computer networks</kwd><kwd>high-speed protocols</kwd><kwd>specification language ESTELLE/Ag</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>