Transforming opacity verification to nonblocking verification in modular systems
Abstract
We consider the verification of current-state and K-step opacity for systems modeled as interacting non-deterministic finite-state automata. We describe a new methodology for compositional opacity verification that employs abstraction, in the form of a notion called opaque observation equivalence, and that leverages existing compositional nonblocking verification algorithms. The compositional approach is based on a transformation of the system, where the transformed system is nonblocking if and only if the original one is current-state opaque. Furthermore, we prove that -step opacity can also be inferred if the transformed system is nonblocking. We provide experimental results where current-state opacity is verified efficiently for a large scaled-up system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1904.06242,
title = {Transforming opacity verification to nonblocking verification in modular systems},
author = {Sahar Mohajerani and Stephane Lafortune},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.06242},
year = {2019}
}