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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Synthesizing Self-stabilization through Superposition and Backtracking
Authors : Alex Klinkhamer, Ali Ebnenasir
Published in: Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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While the design of self-stabilization is known to be a hard problem, several sound (but incomplete) heuristics exist for algorithmic design of self-stabilization. This paper presents a sound and
complete
method for algorithmic design of self-stabilizing network protocols. The essence of the proposed approach is based on variable superposition and backtracking search. We have validated the proposed method by creating both a sequential and a parallel implementation in the context of a software tool, called Protocon. Moreover, we have used Protocon to automatically design self-stabilizing protocols for the problems that all existing heuristics fail to solve.