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Checkpoint-based Rollback Recovery in Session-based Programming

Claudio ANTARES MEZZINA , Francesco TIEZZI , Nobuko YOSHIDA

To react to unforeseen circumstances or amend abnormal situations in communication- centric systems, programmers are in charge of “undoing” the interactions which led to an undesired state. To assist this task, session-based languages can be endowed with reversibility mechanisms. In this paper we propose a language enriched with programming facilities to commit session interactions, to roll back the computation to a previous commit point, and to abort the session. Rollbacks in our language always bring the system to previous visited states and a rollback cannot bring the system back to a point prior to the last commit. Programmers are relieved from the burden of ensuring that a rollback never restores a checkpoint imposed by a session participant different from the rollback requester. Such undesired situations are prevented at design-time (statically) by relying on a decidable compliance check at the type level, implemented in MAUDE. We show that the language satisfies error-freedom and progress of a session.

@article{MTY2025,
  author = {Claudio Antares Mezzina and Francesco Tiezzi and Nobuko Yoshida},
  title = {{Checkpoint-based Rollback Recovery in Session-based Programming}},
  journal = {LMCS},
  pages = {--},
  year = 2025
}

@article{MTY2025,
  author = {Claudio Antares Mezzina and Francesco Tiezzi and Nobuko Yoshida},
  title = {{Checkpoint-based Rollback Recovery in Session-based Programming}},
  journal = {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  pages = {--},
  year = 2025
}