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| Author: Gábor Bettesch |
| Version: 198 17-CNL 113 558, Rev. A |
| Date: 2016-11-17 |
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| = M2PA Protocol Modules for TTCN-3 Toolset with TITAN User Guide |
| :author: Gábor Bettesch |
| :revnumber: 198 17-CNL 113 558, Rev. A |
| :revdate: 2016-11-17 |
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| *Copyright* |
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| Copyright (c) 2000-2016 Ericsson Telecom AB. + |
| All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 that accompanies this distribution, and is available at + |
| http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html. |
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| == About This Document |
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| === How to read This document |
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| This is the User Guide for the M2PA protocol module. The M2PA protocol module is developed for the TTCN-3 Toolset with TITAN. This document should be read together with the Function Specification <<_3, [3]>>. |
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| === Presumed Knowledge |
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| To use this protocol module, the knowledge of the TTCN-3 language <<_4, [4]>> is essential. |
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| == System Requirements |
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| Protocol modules are a set of TTCN-3 source code files that can be used as a part of TTCN-3 test suites only. Hence protocol modules alone do not put specific requirements on the system used. However in order to compile and execute a TTCN-3 test suite using the set of protocol modules the following system requirements must be satisfied: |
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| * TITAN TTCN-3 Test Executor 1.7.pl0 or higher installed. For installation guide see <<_1, [1]>>. |
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| = Protocol Modules |
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| == Overview |
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| Protocol modules implement the message structure of the corresponding protocol in a formalized way, using the standard specification language TTCN-3. This allows defining of test data (templates) in the TTCN-3 language <<_4, [4]>> and correctly encoding/decoding messages when executing test suites using the TITAN TTCN-3 test environment. |
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| Protocol modules are using TITAN`s RAW encoding attributes <<_2, [2]>> and hence are usable with the TITAN test toolset only. |
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| The table below contains the implemented M2PA messages and the corresponding TTCN-3 type records. Using these type records, templates can be defined to send and receive a given message. |
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| |Message name |Reference |Corresponding type record in __M2PA_Types.ttcn__ |
| |User Data |<<_5, [5]>> 2.3.1 |M2PA_DATA |
| |Link Status |<<_5, [5]>> 2.3.2 |M2PA_LINK_STATUS |
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| == Installation |
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| The set of protocol modules can be used in developing TTCN-3 test suites using any text editor. However to make work more efficient a TTCN-3 enabled text editor is recommended (For example, `nedit`, `xemacs`). Since the M2PA protocol is used as a part of a TTCN-3 test suite, this requires TTCN-3 Test Executor and a C compiler be installed before the module can be compiled and executed together with other parts of the test suite. For more details on the installation of TTCN-3 Test Executor see the relevant parts of <<_1, [1]>>. |
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| == Encoding Decoding and Other Related Functions |
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| For encoding and decoding the messages two functions are available. |
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| * Function `enc_PDU_M2PA` makes simple RAW encoding without any modification on the input M2PA message. |
| * Function `dec_PDU_M2PA` makes simple RAW decoding without any modification on the input octetstring. |
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| = Terminology |
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| TITAN TTCN-3 Test Executor. |
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| = Abbreviations |
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| IETF:: Internet Engineering Task Force |
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| MTP2:: Message Transfer Part 2 |
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| M2PA:: MTP2 User Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer |
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| RFC:: Request for Comments |
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| TTCN-3:: Testing and Test Control Notation version 3 |
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| = References |
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| [[_1]] |
| [1] Installation Guide for the TITAN TTCN-3 Test Executor |
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| [[_2]] |
| [2] Programmer’s Technical Reference for the TITAN TTCN-3 Test Executor |
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| [[_3]] |
| [3] M2PA Protocol Modules for TTCN-3 Toolset with TITAN,, Function Specification |
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| [[_4]] |
| [4] ETSI ES 201 873-1 v.3.2.1 (02/2007) + |
| The Testing and Test Control Notation version 3. Part 1: Core Language |
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| [[_5]] |
| [5] IETF RFC 4165 + |
| Signaling System 7 (SS7) Message Transfer Part 2 (MTP2) - User Peer-to-Peer Adaptation Layer (M2PA) |
