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The state explosion is a well-known problem in the field of model checking, which confines the application of model checking to some extent. This paper proposes a partition-based model checking method, which can be employed to address the state explosion problem in some procedures of verifying complex communication protocols with SPIN. The proposed method partitions the design model of a communication protocol into different sub-models by a message-based way, and verifies the design model through validating the sub-models with relatively low resource consumption.
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Zhang, X., Yang, M., Li, X., Shi, H. (2011). A Partition-Based Model Checking Method for Verifying Communication Protocols with SPIN. In: Qi, L. (eds) Information and Automation. ISIA 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 86. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19853-3_10
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