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On bisimulations for the asynchronous $$\pi$$-calculus. (English) Zbl 0915.68009
Summary: The asynchronous $$\pi$$-calculus is a variant of the $$\pi$$-calculus where message emission is non-blocking. Honda and Tokoro have studied a semantics for this calculus based on bisimulation. Their bisimulation relies on a modified transition system where, at any moment, a process can perform any input action.
In this paper, we propose a new notion of bisimulation for the asynchronous $$\pi$$-calculus, defined on top of the standard labelled transition system. We give several characterizations of this equivalence including one in terms of Honda and Tokoro’s bisimulation, and one in terms of barbed equivalence. We show that this bisimulation is preserved by name substitutions, hence by input prefix. Finally, we give a complete axiomatization of the (strong) bisimulation for finite terms.

##### MSC:
 68M10 Network design and communication in computer systems
##### Keywords:
asynchronous $$\pi$$-calculus
Pict
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