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Applications and experimentations

Several encouraging results have been obtained during the first year. One part of the results concern verifying systems beyond the capabilities of previously existing methods such as parametrized networks of processes, parametrized versions of the Bounded Retransmission Protocol, IEEE root contention protocol, etc. The second part consists of case studies showing that our methods scale up to protocols with substantial sizes, e.g., the protocol MASCARA.

A new specification of the PGM protocol has been produced using the new version of IF (extended with the feature of dynamic creation of processes), and some preliminary experimentation has been carried out.

We have also performed some work on the modeling and verification of the SIP protocol. We shall not pursue the study of SIP further in the project since Ericsson have dropped their interest in the protocol. On the other hand, Ericsson will provide new case studies of interest for the project.