A Practical Approach to Verification of Mobile Systems Using Net Unfoldings (2008)

Author(s): Meyer R, Khomenko V, Strazny T

    Abstract: In this paper we propose a technique for verification of mobile systems. We translate finite control processes, which are a well-known subset of pi-Calculus, into Petri nets, which are subsequently used for model checking. This translation always yields bounded Petri nets with a small bound, and we develop a technique for computing a non-trivial bound by static analysis. Moreover, we introduce the notion of safe processes, which are a subset of finite control processes, for which our translation yields safe Petri nets, and show that every finite control process can be translated into a safe one of at most quadratic size. This gives a possibility to translate every finite control process into a safe Petri net, for which efficient unfolding-based verification is possible. Our experiments show that this approach has a significant advantage over other existing tools for verification of mobile systems in terms of memory consumption and runtime.

      • Date: January 2008
      • Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
      • Pages: 32
      • Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
      • Publication type: Report
      • Bibliographic status: Published

      Keywords: finite control processes, safe processes, pi-calculus, mobile systems, model checking, Petri net unfoldings

      Staff

      Dr Victor Khomenko
      Lecturer