Term of Award
Spring 2009
Degree Name
Master of Science in Mathematics (M.S.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Committee Chair
Vladan Jovanovic
Committee Member 1
James K. Harris
Committee Member 2
Yan Wu
Abstract
This thesis will formally define and demonstrate the viability of a standardized set of symbols to be used to represent storage network components in various mediums. Without being formally defined, visual representations of storage network systems and essential networking concepts have proven themselves to be quite useful to the computer sciences industry. It is my proposition, however, that the adoption of a formally defined standardized symbol set would improve the usefulness of these visual tools, the goal being to create a language that is used as the visual tool for designing and modeling storage network solutions for any given infrastructure. As a part of my thesis discourse, I will present my suggestion for a set of standard diagramming network symbols, formally define the syntax of the logical network diagramming language that utilizes these symbols and provide desired semantics using a graph of its corresponding meta-model. I will also present sample diagrams of a storage area network that has been written in the proposed diagramming language as designed by the software program, Microsoft Visio. Standardization follows closely the ideas put forward experimentally by Dr. Jovanovic and his students and collaborators since 2007.
Recommended Citation
Waldring, Ségio Jim, "Standard Network Diagramming Language and Corresponding Meta-Model" (2009). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 666.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/666
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
