On automatic verification of self-stabilizing population protocols

Jun Pang, Zhengqin Luo, Yuxin Deng

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Abstract

The population protocol model [2] has emerged as an elegant computation paradigm for describing mobile ad hoc networks, consisting of a number of mobile nodes that interact with each other to carry out a computation. The interactions of nodes are subject to a fairness constraint. One essential property of population protocols is that all nodes must eventually converge to the correct output value (or configuration). In this paper, we aim to automatically verify self-stabilizing population protocols for leader election and token circulation in the Spin model checker [8]. We report our verification results and discuss the issue of modeling strong fairness constraints in Spin.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2nd IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, TASE 2008
Pages185-192
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, TASE 2008 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 17 Jun 200819 Jun 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2nd IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, TASE 2008

Conference

Conference2nd IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering, TASE 2008
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period17/06/0819/06/08

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