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An operational semantics for a calculus for wireless systems

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Davide SangiorgiAuthors Info & Claims

Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 411, Issue 19

Pages 1928 - 1948

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2010.01.023

Published: 01 April 2010 Publication History

Abstract

In wireless systems, the communication mechanism combines features of broadcast, synchrony, and asynchrony. We develop an operational semantics for a calculus of wireless systems. We present different Reduction Semantics and a Labelled Transition Semantics and prove correspondence results between them. Finally, we apply CWS to the modelling of the Alternating Bit Protocol, and prove a simple correctness result as an example of the kind of properties that can be formalized in this framework. A major goal of the semantics is to describe the forms of interference among the activities of processes that are peculiar of wireless systems. Such interference occurs when a location is simultaneously reached by two transmissions. The Reduction Semantics differ on how information about the active transmissions is managed. We use the calculus to describe and analyse a few properties of a version of the Alternating Bit Protocol.

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