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At present although the abstract structure of a protocol message can be formally defined, the actual format of the bits transmitted on the line or through the air cannot be formally specified. The small number of standardised encoding rules available are only defined in informal text and in many application domains such as radio interfaces, they do not satisfy today’s requirements for very efficient transmission of information. This paper describes a number of the problems associated with the definition of transfer syntax and then discusses a possible solution to these issues involving the development of an advanced encoding control notation.
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Willcock, C. (1999). New Directions in ASN.1: Towards a Formal Notation for Transfer Syntax. In: Csopaki, G., Dibuz, S., Tarnay, K. (eds) Testing of Communicating Systems. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35567-2_3
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