A Polynomial Translation of Mobile Ambients into Safe Petri Nets - Understanding a Calculus of Hierarchical Protection Domains

The master thesis of Susanne Göbel generates the deep understanding of the Mobile Ambient (MA) calculus that is necessary to use it as a modeling language. Instead of calculus terms a much more convenient representation via MA trees naturally maps to the application area of networks where processes pass hierarchical protection domains like firewalls. The work analyses MA's function principles and derives a translation into Safe Petri nets. It extends to arbitrary MA processes but finiteness of the net and therefore decidability of reachability is only guaranteed for bounded processes. The construction is polynomial in process size and bounds so that reachability analysis is only PSPACE-complete.   

List of contents

Translating Mobile Ambient (MA) Processes into Safe Petri Nets - The Idea.- Managing Names in the Petri Net.- Translating Mobile Ambient Processes into Safe Petri Nets - Complete Construction.- From MA to rMA.- From rMA to MA-PN.-  Polynomial Construction Using a Substitution Net.    

Product details

• Authors: Susanne Göbel
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.01.2016
• EAN: 9783658117641
• ISBN: 978-3-658-11764-1
• No. of pages: 66
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 211 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 112 g
• Illustrations: IX, 66 p. 15 illus. in color.
• Series: BestMasters
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; C, Algorithms, computer science, Theory of Computation, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Algorithms & data structures, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Computer Engineering and Networks, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Computer organization, Computer architecture & logic design, Computer networking & communications, Computer logic