Obtaining Memory-Efficient Solutions to Boolean Equation Systems

  • Authors:
  • Misa Keinänen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Laboratory for Theoretical Computer Science, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 5400, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with memory-efficient solution techniques for Boolean fixed-point equations. We show how certain structures of fixed-point equation systems, often encountered in solving verification problems, can be exploited in order to substantially improve the performance of fixed-point computations. Also, we investigate the space complexity of the problem of solving Boolean equation systems, showing a NL-hardness result. A prototype of the proposed technique has been implemented and experimental results on a series of protocol verification benchmarks are reported.