Verifying Fault Tolerance of Distributed Algorithms Formally - An Example

It is shown how fault-tolerant distributed algorithms can be formally verified using the Petri net based verification framework DAWN. A complete example study, the verification of a distributed self diagnosis algorithm, is presented to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed approach.

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