Design and validation of a message-passing system

  • Authors:
  • Fuyau Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

  • Venue:
  • IWSSD '93 Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Software specification and design
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

This paper describes a case study for designing and validating the core of a message-passing communication system. The approach is based on the use of the Petri Net Workbench, the protocol validation language, PROMELA, and its simulator/validator, SPIN. By using these tools, a protocol and underlying hardware for communicating between two heterogeneous computer systems is designed and validated. A reachability analysis is performed which includes a check for live-and dead-lock system states.