Changes between Version 63 and Version 64 of ExDescLang

Timestamp:

Oct 20, 2010 3:55:06 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

sunshine

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ExDescLang

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 We may end up with a single language or a set of related languages. Here is what we need to express:
 
-  1. '''Logical topology''' - both at the level of individual nodes or groups of nodes. We are expressing a ''logical'' topology of the experiment where there are '''objects''' that do something in the experiment - generate traffic, change state, hold data, whatever. Whether these objects are individually generated or generated as a group of entities, whether they are physical nodes or virtual, etc. does not matter. The expressiveness should be such that the actual implementation of objects and the cardinality of each object is orthogonal to the topology description. We should however be able to give '''hints'' such as "these objects are in the same network or on same physical node or object A resides on object B". Here is a rough list of hints we'd like to be able to give:
+  1. '''Logical topology''' - both at the level of individual nodes or groups of nodes. We are expressing a ''logical'' topology of the experiment where there are '''objects''' that do something in the experiment - generate traffic, change state, hold data, whatever. Whether these objects are individually generated or generated as a group of entities, whether they are physical nodes or virtual, etc. does not matter. The expressiveness should be such that the actual implementation of objects and the cardinality of each object is orthogonal to the topology description. We should however be able to give '''hints''' such as "these objects are in the same network or on same physical node or object A resides on object B". Here is a rough list of hints we'd like to be able to give:
    * What type of object this is - we need to enumerate all possible types such as Node, Info, DNSRecord, ... As new meta-descriptions and new generators are added type list will grow
    * What is the cardinality of this object - this is just a hint about cardinality. I need to be able to say "this is one of many" vs "one and only one", like in [BotnetExample] I should have many vulnerable hosts, but in [MitmExample] I have exactly two nodes and one attacker in the middle of them. I could have multiple MITM triplets but the minimum size is 1 triplet.