Abstract
Existing approaches for verifying self-stabilization with symbolic model checker have relied on the use of weak fairness. We point out that this approach has limited scalability. To overcome this limitation, we show that if self-stabilization is possible without fairness then cost of verifying self-stabilization is substantially lower. The practical meaning of this observation is if the extra effort required to verify self-stabilization under weak fairness is not necessary then the state space reached by model checking of self-stabilizing programs could be substantially larger.
This work was partially sponsored by NSF CAREER CCR-0092724 and ONR Grant N00014-01-1-0744.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Tsuchiya, T., Nagano, S., Paidi, R.B., Kikuno, T.: Symbolic Model Checking for Self-Stabilizing Algorithms. IEEE Trans. Parallel Distrib. Syst. 12, 81–95 (2001)
Dijkstra, E.W.: Self stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control. Communications of the ACMÂ 17(11) (1974)
Ghosh, S.: Binary Self-stabilization in Distributed Systems. Information Processing Letter 40(3), 153–159 (1991)
Hoepman, J.H.: Uniform Deterministic Self-Stabilizing Ring-Orientation on Odd-Length Rings. In: Tel, G., Vitányi, P.M.B. (eds.) WDAG 1994. LNCS, vol. 857, pp. 265–279. Springer, Heidelberg (1994)
McMillan, K.L.: Symbolic Model Checking. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht (1993)
Dolev, S.: Self-Stabilization. MIT Press, Cambridge (2000)
Qadeer, S., Shankar, N.: Verifying a self-stabilizing mutual exclusion algorithm. In: Gries, D., Roever, W.-P. (eds.) IFIP International Conference on Programming Concepts and Methods (PROCOMET 1998), Shlter Island, NY, pp. 424–443. Chapman & Hall, Boca Raton (June 1998)
Gouda, M.G.: The Theory of Weak Stabilization. In: Datta, A.K., Herman, T. (eds.) WSS 2001. LNCS, vol. 2194, Springer, Heidelberg (2001)
Chen, J., Abujarad, F., Kulkarni, S.: Towards Scalable Model Checking of Self-Stabilizing Programs, MSU-CSE-10-25, Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University (2010)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Chen, J., Abujarad, F., Kulkarni, S. (2010). Effect of Fairness in Model Checking of Self-stabilizing Programs. In: Lu, C., Masuzawa, T., Mosbah, M. (eds) Principles of Distributed Systems. OPODIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17653-1_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17653-1_11
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-17652-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-17653-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)