A little knowledge goes a long way: knowledge-based derivations and correctness proofs for a family of protocols

  • Authors:
  • Joseph Y. Halpern;Lenore D. Zuck

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA;Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

A high-level, knowledge-based approach for deriving a family of protocols for the sequence transmission problem is presented. The protocols of Aho et al. [2, 3], the Alternating Bit protocol [5], and Stenning's protocol [44] are all instances of one knowledge-based protocol that is derived. The derivation in this paper leads to transparent and uniform correctness proofs for all these protocols.