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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Open Publishing Association
2014-08-01
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Series: | Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science |
Online Access: | http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.5962v1 |