Formal Verification of a TDMA Protocol Start-Up Mechanism

  • Authors:
  • Henrik Lönn;Paul Pettersson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PRFTS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper presents a formal verification of the start-up algorithm of the DACAPO protocol. The protocol uses TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) bus arbitration. It was verified that an ensemble of four communicating stations becomes synchronized and operational within a bounded time from an arbitrary initial state. The system model included a clock drift corresponding to 卤10-3. The protocol was modeled using a network of timed automata, and verification was performed using the symbolic model checker UPPAAL.