Performance problems make projects fail. Unfortunately, they are often detected late in the development cycle adding considerable cost to the project and increasing time-to-market. 'Systems Engineering with SDL' is a practical guide to designing and implementing communication systems and distributed applications, which tackles performance issues at their origin. After introducing the reader to performance engineering concepts, the book focuses ...

Complete guide to developing Linux games, written by the Linux gaming experts. Discusses important multimedia toolkits (including a very thorough discussion of the Simple DirectMedia Layer) and teaches the basics of Linux game programming. Readers learn about the state of the Linux gaming world, and how to write and distribute Linux games to the Linux gaming community. ...

SDL, the Specification and Description Language standardised by the International Telecommunications Union Standardisation Sector (ITU-T), is used to specify and develop complex systems such as GSM, GPRS, UMTS, IEEE 802.11 or Hiperlan. It is a program design and implementation language that is used to build real time event driven systems that involve parallel processing. Since the downturn in the telecom industry, validating a system before its ...

Das Buch führt in die Grundlagen des Protocol Engineerings ein. Es stellt die Funktionsweise von Kommunikationsprotokollen, die Methoden und Techniken für ihre Beschreibung sowie die Phasen der Protokollentwicklung vor. Es werden sowohl praktische als auch theoretische Aspekte des Protocol Engineerings untersucht. ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on SDL and MSC, SAM 2002, held in Aberystwyth, UK in June 2002.
The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and revision. A broad variety of current issues on SDL and on MSC and TTCN are addressed, in particular languages for collaborative specification, visual requirements description, constraints ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International SDL Forum, SDL 2003, held in Stuttgart, Germany in July 2003. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance, evolution, development, modeling, timing, validation, design, and application. Thus all aspects of systems design and system design languages are ...