Fourth International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2007) Model checking the probabilistic pi-calculus Edinburgh, Scotland, UK September 17-September 19 ISBN: 0-7695-2883-X
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/QEST.2007.31
We present an implementation of model checking for the probabilistic \pi-calculus, a process algebra which supports modelling of concurrency, mobility and discrete probabilistic behaviour. Formal verification techniques for this calculus have clear applications in several domains, including mobile ad-hoc network protocols and random security protocols. Despite this, no implementation of automated verification exists. Building upon the (non-probabilistic) \pi- calculus model checker MMC, we first show an automated procedure for constructing the Markov decision process representing a probabilistic \pi-calculus process. This can then be verified using existing probabilistic model checkers such as PRISM. Secondly, we demonstrate how for a large class of systems a more efficient, compositional approach can be applied, which uses our extension of MMC on each parallel component of the system and then translates the results into a high-level model description for the PRISM tool. The feasibility of our techniques is demonstrated through three case studies from the \pi-calculus literature.
Citation:
Gethin Norman, Catuscia Palamidessi, David Parker, Peng Wu, "Model checking the probabilistic pi-calculus," qest, pp.169-178, Fourth International Conference on the Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST 2007), 2007 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||