Title
A Formal Approach to Verify Parameterized Protocols in Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems.
Abstract
Mobile cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are very hard to verify, because of asynchronous communication and the arbitrary number of components. Verification via model checking typically becomes impracticable due to the state space explosion caused by the system parameters and concurrency. In this paper, we propose a formal approach to verify the safety properties of parameterized protocols in mobile CPS. By using counter abstraction, the protocol is modeled as a Petri net. Then, a novel algorithm, which uses IC3 (the state-of-the-art model checking algorithm) as the back-end engine, is presented to verify the Petri net model. The experimental results show that our new approach can greatly scale the verification capabilities compared favorably against several recently published approaches. In addition to solving the instances fast, our method is significant for its lower memory consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1155/2017/5731678
MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Field
DocType
Volume
Asynchronous communication,Parameterized complexity,Petri net,Model checking,Computer science,Concurrency,Counter abstraction,Cyber-physical system,State space,Distributed computing
Journal
2017
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1574-017X
1
0.36
References 
Authors
14
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Long Zhang121.06
Wenyan Hu210.36
WanXia Qu362.54
Yang Guo4164.18
Sikun Li522444.71