A Framework for Verifying Data-Centric Protocols

Yuxin Deng (1) , Stéphane Grumbach (2) , Jean-François Monin (3, 4)

1 BASICS - BASICS
2 NETQUEST - NETQUEST
3 FORMES - Formal Methods for Embedded Systems
4 UJF - Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1

Data centric languages, such as recursive rule based languages, have been proposed to program distributed applications over networks. They simplify greatly the code, while still admitting efficient distributed execution. We show that they also provide a promising approach to the verification of distributed protocols, thanks to their data centric orientation, which allows us to explicitly handle global structures such as the topology of the network. We consider a framework using an original formalization in the Coq proof assistant of a distributed computation model based on message passing with either synchronous or asynchronous behavior. The declarative rules of the Netlog language for specifying distributed protocols and the virtual machines for evaluating these rules are encoded in Coq as well. We consider as a case study tree protocols, and show how this framework enables us to formally verify them in both the asynchronous and synchronous setting.

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Yuxin Deng, Stéphane Grumbach, Jean-François Monin. A Framework for Verifying Data-Centric Protocols. 13th Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS) / 31th International Conference on FORmal TEchniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE), Jun 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland. pp.106-120, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-21461-5_7⟩. ⟨hal-00647802⟩