On the k-synchronizability for mailbox systems

09/04/2019
by   Cinzia Di Giusto, et al.
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Asynchronous bounded or unbounded message passing is ubiquitous in communication-centric systems. When modelling distributed scenarios, it is important to understand whether buffers are bounded or not. In this paper, we work on the notion of k-synchronizability: a system is k-synchronizable if any of its executions, up to reordering causally independent actions, can be divided into a succession of k-bounded interaction phases. We show two results: first, the reachability problem is decidable for k-synchronizable systems; second, the membership problem (whether a given system is k-synchronizable) is decidable as well. Our proofs fix several important issues in previous attempts to prove these two results.

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