A coloured Petri net approach to protocol verification

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3098, Issue , 2004, Pages 210-290

  Billington, Jonathan ^a   Gallasch, Guy Edward ^a   Han, Bing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

ANALYSIS AND VERIFICATIONS; COLOURED PETRI NETS; CONNECTION MANAGEMENTS; DATA TRANSFER PROTOCOLS; INCREMENTAL APPROACH; PROTOCOL VERIFICATION; RETRANSMISSION STRATEGIES; STOP-AND-WAIT PROTOCOLS;

PETRI NETS;

EID: 35048878246     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27755-2_6     Document Type: Article

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