Validation of protocols with temporal constraints

  • Authors:
  • Leo Cacciari;Omar Rafiq

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire TASC/Informatique, Université de Pau, Avenue de l'université, 64000 Pau, France;Laboratoire TASC/Informatique, Université de Pau, Avenue de l'université, 64000 Pau, France

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Reachability analysis is the most popular and most used method in protocol validation. It consists in constructing a graph called a reachability graph, describing communication of machines exchanging messages through FIFO channels. The states and structure of this graph are then analysed according to given properties to validate the related communication protocol. In this paper, we deal with a generalization of reachability analysis to take into account quantitative temporal constraints in protocol validation. A temporal reachability graph is designed, and we show how it can be used to analyse new general properties of communication protocols submitted to temporal constraints.