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Fault-Tolerant Multiparty Session Types

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Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems (FORTE 2022)

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Multiparty session types are designed to abstractly capture the structure of communication protocols and verify behavioural properties. One important such property is progress, i.e., the absence of deadlock. Distributed algorithms often resemble multiparty communication protocols. But proving their properties, in particular termination that is closely related to progress, can be elaborate. Since distributed algorithms are often designed to cope with faults, a first step towards using session types to verify distributed algorithms is to integrate fault-tolerance.

We extend multiparty session types to cope with system failures such as unreliable communication and process crashes. Moreover, we augment the semantics of processes by failure patterns that can be used to represent system requirements (as, e.g., failure detectors). To illustrate our approach we analyse a variant of the well-known rotating coordinator algorithm by Chandra and Toueg.

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    Kirstin Peters

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Peters, K., Nestmann, U., Wagner, C. (2022). Fault-Tolerant Multiparty Session Types. In: Mousavi, M.R., Philippou, A. (eds) Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems. FORTE 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08679-3_7

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