S-Net is a declarative coordination language rooted in stream processing with a runtime that automatically distributes the computational units among available resources. It is conceived in response to the change of processor development trend, from making the speed faster to embedding more cores. For performance reasons, the S-Net compiler is responsible for generating some additional information, through type inference, which is used by the runtime to make data delivery decisions. This requires the compiler to be supported by a sound type system which can ensure that the program behaviour meets the expectations of the language designers and the programmers. However, due to S-Net's design principle of ease of use, the S-Net type system was believed to be simple and was only informally documented. As we empirically tested the type inference implementation, we gradually revealed the hidden complexity of the calculus behind the apparently easy-to-use language, which was clearly beyond the capability of the informal type system. We then attempted several formulations of the type system, each addressing more issues we have found, but a complete solution was still missing. S-Net now urgently needs a formal type system with proofs of soundness. We have identified a major issue which has been making it difficult to design a correct type system, that is the type-semantics interdependency. In this thesis, we present a new design of the S-Net semantics and type system with no type-semantics interdependency, in terms of a new language BL-Net, a reduced S-Net which preserves only the type-related behaviour, which has an operational semantics reflecting that of S-Net, and a type system with the soundness and completeness proof. Our contributions also include a bridging solution to fit the new type system into the existing compiler structure.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:560766 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Cai, Haoxuan |
| Contributors | Eisenbach, Susan ; Drossopoulou, Sophia |
| Publisher | Imperial College London |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/9800 |
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