Expressing Processes with Different Action Durations through Probabilities

  • Authors:
  • Mario Bravetti;Alessandro Aldini

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PAPM-PROBMIV '01 Proceedings of the Joint International Workshop on Process Algebra and Probabilistic Methods, Performance Modeling and Verification
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We consider a discrete time process algebra capable of (i) modeling processes with different probabilistic advancing speeds (mean number of actions executed per time unit), and (ii) expressing probabilistic external/internal choices and multiway synchronization. We show that, when evaluating steady state based performance measures expressed by associating rewards with actions, such a probabilistic approach provides an exact solution even if advancing speeds are considered not to be probabilistic (i.e. actions of different processes have a different exact duration), without incurring in the state space explosion problem which arises with an intuitive application of a standard synchronous approach. We then present a case study on multi-path routing showing the expressiveness of our calculus and that it makes it particularly easy to produce scalable specifications.