Multiparty Session Types (MPST) provide a rigorous formalism for specifying and verifying the correctness of communications in distributed systems. Rooted in the notion of behavioural types, MPST ...
Once again, too many standards are vying for dominance in solving a relatively simple problem. The IT industry needs to break this counterproductive pattern. You know the routine: The IT industry, ...
The UART, or universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter, is one of the most used device-to-device communication protocols. This article shows how to use a UART as a hardware communication protocol by ...
Solutions for asynchronous serial communication between systems or subsystems include many possible interface implementations – for example, RS-232, RS-485, RS-422, controller area network (CAN), ...
There’s an often-impenetrable alphabet soup of protocols, standards and technologies around the Internet of Things. Here’s our attempt to wipe away some of the fog, in the hopes of making the language ...
A fascinating article from Philip N. Howard at George Washington University asserts that the number of connected devices surpassed the number of people on the planet in 2014 (Fig. 1). The author ...