Faster asynchronous systems

  • Authors:
  • Walter Vogler

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg, Universitätsstraße 14, Augsburg D-86135, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A testing scenario in the sense of De Nicola and Hennessy is developed to measure the worst-case efficiency of asynchronous systems. The resulting testing-preorder is characterized with a variant of refusal traces and shown to satisfy some properties that make it attractive as a faster-than relation. Finally, one implementation of a bounded buffer is shown to be strictly faster than two others - in contrast to a result obtained with a different approach by Arun-Kumar and Hennessy.