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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2019.32
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109345
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/10934/
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Bertrand, Nathalie ; Bouyer, Patricia ; Majumdar, Anirban

Reconfiguration and Message Losses in Parameterized Broadcast Networks

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Abstract

Broadcast networks allow one to model networks of identical nodes communicating through message broadcasts. Their parameterized verification aims at proving a property holds for any number of nodes, under any communication topology, and on all possible executions. We focus on the coverability problem which dually asks whether there exists an execution that visits a configuration exhibiting some given state of the broadcast protocol. Coverability is known to be undecidable for static networks, i.e. when the number of nodes and communication topology is fixed along executions. In contrast, it is decidable in PTIME when the communication topology may change arbitrarily along executions, that is for reconfigurable networks. Surprisingly, no lower nor upper bounds on the minimal number of nodes, or the minimal length of covering execution in reconfigurable networks, appear in the literature.
In this paper we show tight bounds for cutoff and length, which happen to be linear and quadratic, respectively, in the number of states of the protocol. We also introduce an intermediary model with static communication topology and non-deterministic message losses upon sending. We show that the same tight bounds apply to lossy networks, although, reconfigurable executions may be linearly more succinct than lossy executions. Finally, we show NP-completeness for the natural optimisation problem associated with the cutoff.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{bertrand_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:10934,
  author =	{Nathalie Bertrand and Patricia Bouyer and Anirban Majumdar},
  title =	{{Reconfiguration and Message Losses in Parameterized Broadcast Networks}},
  booktitle =	{30th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2019)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-121-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{140},
  editor =	{Wan Fokkink and Rob van Glabbeek},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10934},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109345},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2019.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: model checking, parameterized verification, broadcast networks}
}

Keywords: model checking, parameterized verification, broadcast networks
Collection: 30th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 20.08.2019

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