Paper Info
Title
A Hierarchy of Behavioral Equivalences in the π-calculus with Noisy Channels
Abstract
The π-calculus is a process algebra where agents interact by sending communication links to each other via noiseless communication channels. Taking into account the reality of noisy channels, an extension of the π-calculus, called the πN-calculus, has been introduced recently. This paper presents an early transitional semantics of the πN-calculus, which is not a directly translated version of the late semantics of πN, and then extends six kinds of behavioral equivalences consisting of reduction bisimilarity, barbed bisimilarity, barbed equivalence, barbed congruence, bisimilarity and full bisimilarity into the πN-calculus. Such behavioral equivalences are cast in a hierarchy, which is helpful to verify behavioral equivalence of two agents. In particular, this paper shows that due to the noisy nature of channels, the coincidence of bisimilarity and barbed equivalence, as well as the coincidence of full bisimilarity and barbed congruence, in the π-calculus does not hold in πN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1093/comjnl/bxn006
The Computer Journal
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Noisy Channels,agents interact,barbed equivalence,early transitional semantics,full bisimilarity,behavioral equivalence,late semantics,Behavioral Equivalences,reduction bisimilarity,barbed bisimilarity,barbed congruence,communication link
Journal
53
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0010-4620
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
yongzhi cao16310.56