Automated Analysis of AODV using UPPAAL
Abstract
This paper describes an automated, formal and rigorous analysis of the Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, a popular protocol used in wireless mesh networks. We give a brief overview of a model of AODV implemented in the UPPAAL model checker. It is derived from a process-algebraic model which reflects precisely the intention of AODV and accurately captures the protocol specification. Furthermore, we describe experiments carried out to explore AODV's behaviour in all network topologies up to 5 nodes. We were able to automatically locate problematic and undesirable behaviours. This is in particular useful to discover protocol limitations and to develop improved variants. This use of model checking as a diagnostic tool complements other formal-methods-based protocol modelling and verification techniques, such as process algebra.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1512.07352,
title = {Automated Analysis of AODV using UPPAAL},
author = {Ansgar Fehnker and Rob van Glabbeek and Peter Höfner and Annabelle McIver and Marius Portmann and Wee Lum Tan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.07352},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1512.07312