Flexible protocol synthesis method for adopting requirement changes

Communicating entities in a protocol specification communicate with each other and provide services to their users. Once the behaviours of the entities (specification of the protocol) are specified they are not changed. The entities provide a fixed set of services to their users. However, different users have different requirements and their requirements change often. The requirement changes in general are small in terms of the size of the behaviour expressions of the entities. Traditional protocol synthesis techniques have given considerable attention in construction of new protocols for fixed set of services but less attention to the attractive maintenance issue of protocol to adopt new protocol requirement changes. What is desirable is a protocol synthesis method which adopts new protocol requirement changes into the behaviours of entities or protocol specifications. In this paper, we propose a protocol synthesis method which adopts the new protocol requirement changes into the protocol specification. In this way, we can use existing protocol specifications and maintain them to adopt requirement changes. We use the formal specification language LOTOS to specify requirement changes and the behaviours of entities.