Network invariants for real-time systems

  • Authors:
  • Olga Grinchtein;Martin Leucker

  • Affiliations:
  • Uppsala University, Department of Computer Systems, Uppsala, Sweden;TU München, Institut für Informatik, Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Formal Aspects of Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We extend the approach of model checking parameterized networks of processes by means of network invariants to the setting of real-time systems. We introduce timed transition structures (which are similar in spirit to timed automata) and define a notion of abstraction that is safe with respect to linear temporal properties. We strengthen the notion of abstraction to allow a finite system, then called network invariant, to be an abstraction of networks of real-time systems. In general the problem of checking abstraction of real-time systems is undecidable. Hence, we provide sufficient criteria, which can be checked automatically, to conclude that one system is an abstraction of a concrete one. Our method is based on timed superposition and discretization of timed systems. We exemplify our approach by proving mutual exclusion of a simple protocol inspired by Fischer’s protocol, using the model checker TLV.