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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.2
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68877
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Sagiv, Mooly

Simple Invariants for Proving the Safety of Distributed Protocols (Invited Talk)

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Abstract

Safety of a distributed protocol means that the protocol never reaches a bad state, e.g., a state where two nodes become leaders in a leader-election protocol. Proving safety is obviously undecidable since such protocols are run by an unbounded number of nodes, and their safety needs to be established for any number of nodes. I will describe a deductive approach for proving safety, based on the concept of universally quantified inductive invariants—an adaptation of the mathematical concept of induction to the domain of programs. In the deductive approach, the programmer specifies a candidate inductive invariant and the system automatically checks if it is inductive. By restricting the invariants to be universally quantified, this approach can be effectively implemented with a SAT solver.

This is a joint work with Ken McMillan (Microsoft Research), Oded Padon (Tel Aviv University), Aurojit Panda (UC Berkeley), and Sharon Shoham (Tel Aviv University) and was integrated into the IVY system. The work is inspired by Shachar Itzhaky's thesis.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{sagiv:LIPIcs:2016:6887,
  author =	{Mooly Sagiv},
  title =	{{Simple Invariants for Proving the Safety of Distributed Protocols (Invited Talk)}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:1},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Akash Lal and S. Akshay and Saket Saurabh and Sandeep Sen},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2016/6887},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68877},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Program verification, Distributed protocols, Deductive reasoning}
}

Keywords: Program verification, Distributed protocols, Deductive reasoning
Collection: 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)
Issue Date: 2016
Date of publication: 10.12.2016

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