Verifying stateful timed CSP using implicit clocks and zone abstraction

Abstract

In this work, we study model checking of compositional real-time systems. A system is modeled using mutable data variables as well as a compositional timed process. Instead of explicitly manipulating clock variables, a number of compositional timed behavioral patterns are used to capture quantitative timing requirements, e.g. delay, timeout, deadline, timed interrupt, etc. A fully automated abstraction technique is developed to build an abstract finite state machine from the model. The idea is to dynamically create/delete clocks, and maintain/ solve a constraint on the clocks. The abstract machine weakly bi-simulates the model and, therefore, LTL model checking or trace-refinement checking are sound and complete. We enhance our home-grown PAT model checker with the technique and show its usability via the verification of benchmark systems. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.