Efficient model checking for LTL with partial order snapshots

Peter Niebert, Doron Peled

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Abstract

Certain behavioral properties of distributed systems are difficult to express in interleaving semantics, whereas they are naturally expressed in terms of partial orders of events or, equivalently, Mazurkiewicz traces. Examples of such properties are serializability of a database or snapshots. Recently, a modest extension for LTL by an operator that expresses snapshots has been proposed. It combines the ease of linear (interleaving) specification with this useful partial order concept. The new construct allows one to assert that a global snapshot (also called a slice or a cut) was passed, perhaps not in the observed (interleaved) execution sequence, but possibly in a (trace) equivalent one. A model checking algorithm was suggested for a subset of this logic, with PSPACE complexity in the size of the system and the checked formula. For the whole logic, a solution that is in EXSPACE in the size of the system (PSPACE in the number of its global states) was given. In this paper, we provide a model checking algorithm in PSPACE in the size of a system of communicating sequential processes when restricting snapshots to boolean combinations of local properties of each process. Concerning size of the formula, it is PSPACE for the case of snapshot properties expressed in DNF, and EXPSPACE where a translation to DNF is necessary.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems - 12th International Conference, TACAS 2006. Held as Part of the Joint European Conf. on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006
Pages272-286
Number of pages15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2006. Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: 25 Mar 20062 Apr 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3920 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2006. Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period25/03/062/04/06

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