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Compositional verification of a distributed real-time arbitration protocol

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A distributed real-time arbitration protocol is specified and verified using an assertional method. The formalism is based on classical Hoare triples which have been extended to deal with real-time properties. To verify design steps, a compositional proof system has been formulated for these extended triples. The intention of the protocol is to resolve contention between a number of concurrent modules that compete to acquire control of a common bus. Therefore our proof method has been adapted to deal with concurrent processes that communicate by means of a common bus. Compositionality makes it possible to verify the required properties of the protocol using only the specifications of the modules. Next we give a top-down derivation of a program implementing a module according to its real-time specification.

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Hooman, J. Compositional verification of a distributed real-time arbitration protocol. Real-Time Syst 6, 173–205 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01088595

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