Model Checking Paxos in Spin

We present a formal model of a distributed consensus algorithm in the executable specification language Promela extended with a new type of guards, called counting guards, needed to implement transitions that depend on majority voting. Our formalization exploits abstractions that follow from reduct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giorgio Delzanno, Michele Tatarek, Riccardo Traverso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2014-08-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.5962v1