Session Types for Reliable Distributed Systems (STARDUST)

Lead Research Organisation: Imperial College London
Department Name: Computing

Abstract

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Description Implementing multiparty session types with Rust for two versions, synchronous version and asynchronous version.
Exploitation Route Yes for the education and other UKRI projects such as AppControl and Morello-HAT.
Sectors Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Education

Financial Services

and Management Consultancy
URL https://mrg.cs.ox.ac.uk/
 
Description It is used for Morello-HAT and AppControl Projects which are related to Morello boards. The tools are also used for educations at Imperial and Keio University in Japan.
First Year Of Impact 2022
Sector Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Security and Diplomacy
Impact Types Economic
 
Title Artifact: Deadlock-Free Asynchronous Message Reoerderign in Rust with Multiparty Session Types 
Description Artifact of the paper: "Deadlock-Free Asynchronous Message Reoerderign in Rust with Multiparty Session Types", PPoPP 2022. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact The Rumpsteak framework is a framework for MPST in Rust. This software is an artifact that shows its capabilities. 
URL https://zenodo.org/record/5786034
 
Title Artifact: Design-By-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols 
Description Artifact for the paper : Design-By-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2022 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Artifact supporting the paper : Design-By-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols 
URL https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.8.2.21
 
Title Artifact: Dynamically Updatable Multiparty Session Protocols 
Description Artifact for the paper: Dynamically Updatable Multiparty Session Protocols 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2023 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Artifact supporting the paper Dynamically Updatable Multiparty Session Protocols 
URL https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.9.2.10
 
Title Artifact: Generalised Multiparty Session Types with Crash-Stop Failures 
Description Artifact supporting the paper : Generalised Multiparty Session Types with Crash-Stop Failures 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2022 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Artifact for the paper : https://github.com/alcestes/mpstk-crash-stop 
URL https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2022.35
 
Title Artifact: Generic Go to Go: Dictionary-Passing, Monomorphisation, and Hybrid 
Description Artifact for paper: Generic Go to Go: Dictionary-Passing, Monomorphisation, and Hybrid 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2022 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Artifact for paper : Generic Go to Go: Dictionary-Passing, Monomorphisation, and Hybrid 
URL https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3563331
 
Title Artifact: Rollback Recovery in Session-Based Programming 
Description Artifact for paper: Rollback Recovery in Session-Based Programming 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2023 
Impact Artifact for paper: Rollback Recovery in Session-Based Programming 
URL https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35361-1_11#chapter-info
 
Title Artifact: Stay Safe Under Panic: Affine Rust Programming with Multiparty Session Types 
Description Artifact for the paper: Stay Safe Under Panic: Affine Rust Programming with Multiparty Session Types (https://doi.org/10.4230/DARTS.8.2.9) This introduces the `multicrusty` library. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2022 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Artifact supporting the paper. 
URL https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.8.2.9
 
Title Designing Asynchronous Multiparty Protocols with Crash-Stop Failures (Artifact) 
Description We introduce Teatrino, a toolchain that supports handling multiparty protocols with crash-stop fail- ures and crash-handling behaviours. Teatrino accompanies the novel MPST theory in the related article, and enables users to generate fault-tolerant protocol-conforming Scala code from Scribble protocols. Local types are projected from the global protocol, enabling correctness-by-construction, and are expressed directly as Scala types via the Effpi concurrency library. Teatrino extends both Scribble and Effpi with support for crash-stop behaviour. The generated Scala code is execut- able and can be further integrated with existing systems. The accompanying theory in the related article guarantees deadlock-freedom and liveness properties for failure handling protocols and their implementation. This artifact includes examples, extended from both session type and distributed systems literature, featured in the related article. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2023 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Artifact supporting the paper Designing Asynchronous Multiparty Protocols with Crash-Stop Failures 
URL https://zenodo.org/record/7974824
 
Title Zooid: a DSL for Certified Multiparty Computation 
Description Artifact for the Zooid language and Coq mechanisation of the metathory of multiparty session types. This artifact contains the implementation for "Zooid: a DSL for Certified Multiparty Computation" from PLDI'21 This code is maintained at: https://github.com/emtst/zooid-cmpst 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact See: http://mrg.doc.ic.ac.uk/publications/zooid-paper/ 
URL https://zenodo.org/record/4581294
 
Title dot-parser 
Description A parser for DOT files in Rust 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact No such parser previously existed in Rust. This is used for the developement of the Rumpsteak framework. 
URL https://crates.io/crates/dot-parser