Protocol Verification by Aggregation of Distributed Transactions

We present a new approach for using a theorem-prover to verify the correctness of protocols and distributed algorithms. The method compares a state graph of the implementation with a specification which is a state graph representing the desired abstract behavior. The steps in the specification correspond to atomic transactions, which are not atomic in the implementation.

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