A PC includes: a frame designing section configured to design a communications frame of a communications protocol; and a protocol driver generating section configured to generate a protocol driver in accordance with the communications frame having been designed. The frame designing section includes: a providing section configured to provide a graphics object that graphically represents an element of at least one segment of the communications frame and that contains information on the size of the element, in a manner that enables the graphics object to be selected and to be disposed in the at least one segment; and a setting section configured to set the property of the element represented by the graphics object having been disposed.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker configured to monitor, e.g., via filters, for certain protocol state transitions/changes or host hardware resource transitions/changes when a host processor in the control plane that performs such monitoring functions is unavailable or overloaded. The filters, in some embodiments, are pre-computed/computed by the host processor and transmitted to the protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker. The protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker may be used to implement a fast upgrade operation as well as load sharing and or load balancing operation with control plane associated components.

Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker configured to monitor, e.g., via filters, for certain protocol state transitions/changes or host hardware resource transitions/changes when a host processor in the control plane that performs such monitoring functions is unavailable or overloaded. The filters, in some embodiments, are pre-computed/computed by the host processor and transmitted to the protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker. The protocol state transition and/or resource state transition tracker may be used to implement a fast upgrade operation as well as load sharing and or load balancing operation with control plane associated components.

Technologies for allocating resources across data centers include a compute device to obtain resource utilization data indicative of a utilization of resources for a managed node to execute a workload. The compute device is also to determine whether a set of resources presently available to the managed node in a data center in which the compute device is located satisfies the resource utilization data. Additionally, the compute device is to allocate, in response to a determination that the set of resources presently available to the managed node does not satisfy the resource utilization data, a supplemental set of resources to the managed node. The supplemental set of resources are located in an off-premises data center that is different from the data center in which the compute device is located. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Various approaches for the packet processing, and the use of templates for generating modification commands for packet processing, are discussed herein. In an example, operations performed by network packet processing circuitry include: obtaining a stream of packets; obtaining a packet modification template that provides at least one command to insert content within the packets and change the packets according to an output format of a network protocol; receiving parameters to modify the packet modification template; and applying the packet modification template to modify the packets. In further examples, application of the packet modification template is performed using multiple processing components arranged in parallel groups of serial pipelines, each of the serial pipelines applying a portion of the packet modification template within at least a first stage and a second stage in each of the serial pipelines.

A method, computer program product, and computer system for applying a firewall security layer to software for hardware interface. Sensor data imported by the hardware interface may be secured using the firewall security layer. The sensor data may be provided to an artificial intelligence (AI) expert system. The sensor data provided to the AI expert system may be analyzed. An indication of an insecure condition may be provided via a user interface based upon, at least in part, analysis of the sensor data.

In a communication system for vehicle-to-environment communication, data to be transmitted is transmitted wirelessly as data packets. The system includes a communication unit and an application unit which are in contact with one another via an internal communication link, the communication unit having a high-frequency antenna and a transceiver for physical data transmission, in addition to a data processor for controlling the physical transmission. The application unit has at least one data processor configured to execute application programs, to control the access of the application programs to the vehicle-to-environment communication and to execute data communication security applications. The data processor of the application unit is configured to forward the data packets including the routing between communication users and to segment the data stream.

One or more embodiments of this specification provide a blockchain system, and a message transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving a blockchain message from a blockchain node of a plurality of blockchain nodes in a blockchain relay communication network; sending the blockchain message to a relay node in a relay cluster of a plurality of relay clusters; and transmitting the blockchain message to the target blockchain node through the target relay cluster, wherein each blockchain node of the plurality of blockchain nodes is connected to at least one relay cluster of the plurality of relay clusters, and each relay cluster of the plurality of relay clusters comprises a load balancer and at least one relay node connected to the load balancer.

Significantly optimized multi-stage networks, useful in wide target applications, with VLSI layouts using only horizontal and vertical links to route large scale sub-integrated circuit blocks having inlet and outlet links, and laid out in an integrated circuit device in a two-dimensional grid arrangement of blocks are presented. The optimized multi-stage networks in each block employ several rings of stages of switches with inlet and outlet links of sub-integrated circuit blocks connecting to rings from either left-hand side only, or from right-hand side only, or from both left-hand side and right-hand side; and employ shuffle exchange links where outlet links of cross links from switches in a stage of a ring in one sub-integrated circuit block are connected to either inlet links of switches in the another stage of a ring in the same or another sub-integrated circuit block.

Significantly optimized multi-stage networks, useful in wide target applications, with VLSI layouts using only horizontal and vertical links to route large scale sub-integrated circuit blocks having inlet and outlet links, and laid out in an integrated circuit device in a two-dimensional grid arrangement of blocks are presented. The optimized multi-stage networks in each block employ several rings of stages of switches with inlet and outlet links of sub-integrated circuit blocks connecting to rings from either left-hand side only, or from right-hand side only, or from both left-hand side and right-hand side; and employ shuffle exchange links where outlet links of cross links from switches in a stage of a ring in one sub-integrated circuit block are connected to either inlet links of switches in the another stage of a ring in the same or another sub-integrated circuit block.