A Gentle Overview of Asynchronous Session-based Concurrency: Deadlock Freedom by Typing

Autor: Heuvel, Bas van den, Pérez, Jorge A.
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: EPTCS 414, 2024, pp. 1-20
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.4204/EPTCS.414.1
Popis: While formal models of concurrency tend to focus on synchronous communication, asynchronous communication is relevant in practice. In this paper, we will discuss asynchronous communication in the context of session-based concurrency, the model of computation in which session types specify the structure of the two-party protocols implemented by the channels of a communicating process. We overview recent work on addressing the challenge of ensuring the deadlock-freedom property for message-passing processes that communicate asynchronously in cyclic process networks governed by session types. We offer a gradual presentation of three typed process frameworks and outline how they may be used to guarantee deadlock freedom for a concurrent functional language with sessions.
Comment: In Proceedings ICE 2024, arXiv:2412.07570
Databáze: arXiv