NDLI: Proving safety and liveness of communicating processes with examples

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Misra, J. Smith, Todd Chandy, K. M.
Abstract	A method is proposed for reasoning about safety and liveness properties of message passing networks. The method is hierarchical and is based upon combining the specifications of component processes to obtain the specification of a network. The inference rules for safety properties use induction on the number of messages transmitted; liveness proofs use techniques similar to termination proofs in sequential programs. We illustrate the method with two examples: concatenations of buffers to construct larger buffers and a special case of Stenning protocol for message communication over noisy channels.
Starting Page	201
Ending Page	208
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897910818
DOI	10.1145/800220.806698
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1982-08-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Message-passing systems Communicating processes Liveness Proofs of process networks Safety
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Proving safety and liveness of communicating processes with examples