Sequential and Parallel Tools for Model Checking Conditional Stable Properties in a Layered Way

We invented a divide & conquer approach to conditional stable model checking so as to ease the state space explosion problem. As indicated by its name, the technique concentrates on conditional stable properties expressed as <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\varp...

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Published in:IEEE access Vol. 10; pp. 133749 - 133765
Main Authors: Do, Canh Minh, Phyo, Yati, Ogata, Kazuhiro
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Piscataway IEEE 2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Computer networks
conditional stable properties
divide and conquer approach
Explosions
Fault tolerance
Fault tolerant systems
Information science
Memory management
Model checking
parallel algorithms
Self-stabilizing systems
state space explosion
Transient analysis
ISSN:2169-3536, 2169-3536
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Summary:We invented a divide & conquer approach to conditional stable model checking so as to ease the state space explosion problem. As indicated by its name, the technique concentrates on conditional stable properties expressed as <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\varphi _{1} \leadsto \Box \varphi _{2} </tex-math></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\varphi _{1} </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">\varphi _{2} </tex-math></inline-formula> are state propositions. The properties can be used to formalize desired properties that self-stabilizing systems should satisfy. Self-stabilization in distributed systems was first introduced by Dijkstra and became a very crucial concept in fault tolerance to design robust systems. However, designing self-stabilizing systems need much more effort than non-stabilizing ones because the former are subject to transient errors at any time. Therefore, it is worth dedicating to conditional stable properties. In this paper, we report a sequential tool and a parallel technique/tool for the divide & conquer approach to conditional stable model checking. Some experiments are also conducted showing that our sequential and parallel tools can ease the state space explosion and improve the running performance of model checking for conditional stable properties to a certain scope, respectively.
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ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3230844