Verifying an infinite family of inductions simultaneously using data independence and FDR

We present a technique for formally establishing results for scalable systems, such as distributed systems and communication protocol networks, where the results are independent of the system’s parameters. Example parameters are network topology, size and buffer capacity. The technique combines the use of the process algebra CSP to model systems and their specifications, and the FDR tool to help reason about them. We give examples of the techniques implementation on a simple distributed system and a communications protocol involving the multiplexing of channels.