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Author Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa
Title Exploiting Transition Locality in Automatic Verification of Finite State Concurrent Systems Type Journal Article
Year 2004 Publication Sttt Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6 Issue (up) 4 Pages 320-341
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Abstract In this paper we show that statistical properties of the transition graph of a system to be verified can be exploited to improve memory or time performances of verification algorithms. We show experimentally that protocols exhibit transition locality. That is, with respect to levels of a breadth-first state space exploration, state transitions tend to be between states belonging to close levels of the transition graph. We support our claim by measuring transition locality for the set of protocols included in the Mur$\varphi$ verifier distribution. We present a cache-based verification algorithm that exploits transition locality to decrease memory usage and a disk-based verification algorithm that exploits transition locality to decrease disk read accesses, thus reducing the time overhead due to disk usage. Both algorithms have been implemented within the Mur$\varphi$ verifier. Our experimental results show that our cache-based algorithm can typically save more than 40% of memory with an average time penalty of about 50% when using (Mur$\varphi$) bit compression and 100% when using bit compression and hash compaction, whereas our disk-based verification algorithm is typically more than ten times faster than a previously proposed disk-based verification algorithm and, even when using 10% of the memory needed to complete verification, it is only between 40 and 530% (300% on average) slower than (RAM) Mur$\varphi$ with enough memory to complete the verification task at hand. Using just 300 MB of memory our disk-based Mur$\varphi$ was able to complete verification of a protocol with about $10^9$ reachable states. This would require more than 5 GB of memory using standard Mur$\varphi$.
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ DIMTZ04j Serial 91
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Author Della Penna, Giuseppe; Intrigila, Benedetto; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Venturini Zilli, Marisa
Title Finite horizon analysis of Markov Chains with the Mur$\varphi$ verifier Type Journal Article
Year 2006 Publication Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf. Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8 Issue (up) 4 Pages 397-409
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Abstract In this paper we present an explicit disk-based verification algorithm for Probabilistic Systems defining discrete time/finite state Markov Chains. Given a Markov Chain and an integer k (horizon), our algorithm checks whether the probability of reaching an error state in at most k steps is below a given threshold. We present an implementation of our algorithm within a suitable extension of the Mur$\varphi$ verifier. We call the resulting probabilistic model checker FHP-Mur$\varphi$ (Finite Horizon Probabilistic Mur$\varphi$). We present experimental results comparing FHP-Mur$\varphi$ with (a finite horizon subset of) PRISM, a state-of-the-art symbolic model checker for Markov Chains. Our experimental results show that FHP-Mur$\varphi$ can handle systems that are out of reach for PRISM, namely those involving arithmetic operations on the state variables (e.g. hybrid systems).
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Call Number Sapienza @ mari @ Dimtz06 Serial 78
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Author Mari, Federico; Melatti, Igor; Tronci, Enrico; Finzi, Alberto
Title A multi-hop advertising discovery and delivering protocol for multi administrative domain MANET Type Journal Article
Year 2013 Publication Mobile Information Systems Abbreviated Journal Mobile Information Systems
Volume 3 Issue (up) 9 Pages 261-280
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ISSN 1574-017x (Print) 1875-905X (Online) ISBN Medium
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