We study a probabilistic variant of binary session types that relate to a class of Finite-State Markov Chains. The probability annotations in session types enable the reasoning on the probability that a session terminates successfully, for some user-definable notion of successful termination. We develop a type system for a simple session calculus featuring probabilistic choices and show that the success probability of well-typed processes agrees with that of the sessions they use. To this aim, the type system needs to track the propagation of probabilistic choices across different sessions.

Probabilistic Analysis of Binary Sessions

Luca Padovani;
2020-01-01

Abstract

We study a probabilistic variant of binary session types that relate to a class of Finite-State Markov Chains. The probability annotations in session types enable the reasoning on the probability that a session terminates successfully, for some user-definable notion of successful termination. We develop a type system for a simple session calculus featuring probabilistic choices and show that the success probability of well-typed processes agrees with that of the sessions they use. To this aim, the type system needs to track the propagation of probabilistic choices across different sessions.
2020
31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2020
Vienna, Austria
2020
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing
171
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Deadlock freedom; Probabilistic choices; Session types; Static analysis
Omar Inverso; Hernán Melgratti; Luca Padovani; Catia Trubiani; Emilio Tuosto
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