Developing model checkers using PAT
ATVA'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Automated technology for verification and analysis
Model checking a model checker: a code contract combined approach
ICFEM'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Formal engineering methods and software engineering
On combining state space reductions with global fairness assumptions
FM'11 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Formal methods
A model checker for hierarchical probabilistic real-time systems
CAV'12 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
Model checking with fairness assumptions using PAT
Frontiers of Computer Science: Selected Publications from Chinese Universities
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The population protocol model has emerged as an elegant paradigm for describing mobile ad hoc networks, consisting of a number of nodes that interact with each other to carry out a computation. One essential property of self-stabilizing population protocols is that all nodes must eventually converge to the correct output value, with respect to all possible initial configurations. It has been shown that fairness constraints play a crucial role in designing population protocols. The Process Analysis Toolkit (PAT) has been developed to perform verifications under different fairness constraints efficiently. In particular, it can handle global fairness, which is required for the correctness of most of population protocols. It is an ideal candidate for automatically verifying population protocols. In this paper, we summarize our latest empirical evaluation of PAT on a set of self-stabilizing population protocols for ring networks. We report one previously unknown bug in a protocol for leader election identified using PAT.