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Towards a behavioural theory of access and mobility control in distributed systems

Towards a behavioural theory of access and mobility control in distributed systems
Towards a behavioural theory of access and mobility control in distributed systems
We define a typed bisimulation equivalence for the language Dpi, a distributed version of the pi-calculus in which processes may migrate between dynamically created locations. It takes into account resource access policies, which can be implemented in Dpi using a novel form of dynamic capability types. The equivalence, based on typed actions between configurations, is justified by showing that it is fully-abstract with respect to a natural distributed version of a contextual equivalence. In the second part of the paper we study the effect of controlling the migration of processes. This affects the ability to perform observations at specific locations, as the observer may be denied access. We show how the typed actions can be modified to take this into account, and generalise the full-abstraction result to this more delicate scenario.
0304-3975
615-669
Hennessy, Matthew
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Merro, Massimo
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Rathke, Julian
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Sassone, Vladimiro
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Hennessy, Matthew
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Merro, Massimo
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Rathke, Julian
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Hennessy, Matthew, Merro, Massimo and Rathke, Julian , Sassone, Vladimiro (ed.) (2004) Towards a behavioural theory of access and mobility control in distributed systems. Theoretical Computer Science, 322 (3), 615-669.

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Abstract

We define a typed bisimulation equivalence for the language Dpi, a distributed version of the pi-calculus in which processes may migrate between dynamically created locations. It takes into account resource access policies, which can be implemented in Dpi using a novel form of dynamic capability types. The equivalence, based on typed actions between configurations, is justified by showing that it is fully-abstract with respect to a natural distributed version of a contextual equivalence. In the second part of the paper we study the effect of controlling the migration of processes. This affects the ability to perform observations at specific locations, as the observer may be denied access. We show how the typed actions can be modified to take this into account, and generalise the full-abstraction result to this more delicate scenario.

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Published date: 2004
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 263366
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/263366
ISSN: 0304-3975
PURE UUID: 52b7835d-e12e-41c8-a1d4-68ac9da2058d
ORCID for Vladimiro Sassone: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6432-1482

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Date deposited: 01 Feb 2007
Last modified: 10 Sep 2024 01:40

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Author: Matthew Hennessy
Author: Massimo Merro
Author: Julian Rathke
Editor: Vladimiro Sassone ORCID iD

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