π-calculus, Session Types research at Imperial College
Multiparty Session Types (MPST) is a typing discipline for distributed protocols, which ensures communication safety and deadlock-freedom for more than two participants. This paper reports on our research project, implementing multiparty session types in Rust. Current Rust implementations of session types are limited to binary (two-party communications). We extend an existing library for binary session types to MPST. We have implemented a simplified Amazon Prime Video Streaming protocol using our library for both shared and distributed communication transports.
@inproceedings{LNY2020, author = {Nicolas Lagaillardie and Rumyana Neykova and Nobuko Yoshida}, title = {{Implementing Multiparty Session Types in Rust}}, booktitle = {22nd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages}, series = {LNCS}, volume = {12134}, pages = {127--136}, publisher = {Springer}, year = 2020 }
@inproceedings{LNY2020, author = {Nicolas Lagaillardie and Rumyana Neykova and Nobuko Yoshida}, title = {{Implementing Multiparty Session Types in Rust}}, booktitle = {22nd International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages}, series = {LNCS}, volume = {12134}, pages = {127--136}, publisher = {Springer}, doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-50029-0_8", year = 2020 }