Virtual Control Policy for Binary Ordered Resources Petri Net Class

Sensors (Basel). 2016 Aug 18;16(8):1307. doi: 10.3390/s16081307.

Abstract

Prevention and avoidance of deadlocks in sensor networks that use the wormhole routing algorithm is an active research domain. There are diverse control policies that will address this problem being our approach a new method. In this paper we present a virtual control policy for the new specialized Petri net subclass called Binary Ordered Resources Petri Net (BORPN). Essentially, it is an ordinary class constructed from various state machines that share unitary resources in a complex form, which allows branching and joining of processes. The reduced structure of this new class gives advantages that allow analysis of the entire system's behavior, which is a prohibitive task for large systems because of the complexity and routing algorithms.

Keywords: BORPN class; Petri nets; deadlock; resource allocation systems; siphons.