SAL Tutorial : Analyzing the Fault - Tolerant Algorithm OM ( 1 )

The resources of SAL allow many kinds of systems to be modeled and analyzed. However, it requires skill and experience to exploit the capabilities of SAL to the best effect in any given problem domain. This tutorial provides an introduction to the use of SAL in modeling and analyzing fault-tolerant systems. The example considered here is a simple variant on the classical one-round Oral Messages algorithm OM(1) for Byzantine agreement and will be familiar to many computer scientists. The SAL model developed here is available for download, so that users can repeat the analyses described, and exercises are suggested for additional experiments.